at the mercy of

at the mercy of

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ y ǎ ngsu í R é n, which means every move is at the mercy of others. It comes from sending Li Gongshu to the palace.

The origin of Idioms

Song Sushi's poem "sending Li Gongshu to the palace" said: "an Neng is always in the dust, and he looks up to others like an orange."

Idiom usage

It means that everything is controlled by others. example Zongheng has its own cloud pen, but it is pitiful to follow others. The second one of Jin · Yuan Haowen's poems on Poetry