bring destruction on oneself

bring destruction on oneself

Moth to fire, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ē I é f ù Hu ǒ, which means like a moth fighting a fire; it refers to looking for a dead end and destroying oneself. From the book of Liang, biography of Zhiji.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of Liang, the biography of Daoji: "if a moth goes to the fire, how can he burn himself?"

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, adverbial, attribute; derogatory. example if you do this, it's a moth to the fire.

Analysis of Idioms

Suicide, moth to fire, suicide, moth to fire

Idiom story

In the Southern Dynasties, the gifted scholar of Liang Dynasty, who was the grandson of Jin ziguanglu, was deeply loved by the emperor Xiao Yan. He often wrote poems together. Xiao Yan specially gave his grandfather a poem: "grind ink to make the text clear, and write letters like a moth to the fire. It will be as old as it has been, and it can be fake for Shaoyu. "