Burning the nest
Burning the nest, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f é NCH á OD à ngxu é, meaning complete destruction. It comes from the card of Tang Shunzhi in Ming Dynasty.
Idiom usage
To destroy completely.
The origin of Idioms
Tang Shunzhi's pai in the Ming Dynasty: "all the soldiers come here and burn their nests. If there is no one left, it is already."
Analysis of Idioms
Burning the nest and stirring up trouble
Burning the nest
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have wide learning and a retentive memory - qià wén qiáng jì
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