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Go through the butcher's gate and chew

Time: 2022-01-31 00:24:06 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Go through the butcher's gate and chew

Explanation: butcher, butcher. The metaphor thinks in the heart but does not have the hand, has to use the impractical method to comfort oneself.

It's used as object and attribute, which means self comfort.

Idiom explanation

Butcher's, butcher's. The metaphor thinks in the heart but does not have the hand, has to use the impractical method to comfort oneself.

The origin of Idioms

Huan Tan's new treatise in Han Dynasty: "when people hear about Chang'an music, they go out and smile to the West; when they know that the meat is delicious, they chew on the butcher." Cao Zhi of the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms wrote a book with Wu Ji: "if you go through the butcher's gate and chew, it's not meat, but expensive and pleasant."

Discrimination of words

For example, as a mother, she should at least let the children open their eyes in amazement on the road and "go through the butcher's door and chew". New year by Mao Dun

Go through the butcher's gate and chew


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