annihilate the enemy

annihilate the enemy

Plowing the court to sweep away the hole, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l í t í ngs ǎ oxu é, which means to completely destroy the enemy. It comes from the book of the Han Dynasty, biography of Xiongnu, written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of the Han Dynasty, biography of the Xiongnu, it is said that "the court has been plowed, the Lu has been swept, and the county has been set up."

Idiom usage

Song Luyou's shangdianzazi: "if the imperial court doesn't have the intention of going deep into the distant discussion and plowing the court to sweep away the acupoints, it can cut down everything according to the cost, and your majesty bows to frugality to encourage the custom, then it must be reasonable to bestow it on the people." The 39th chapter of the scholars written by Wu Jingzi in Qing Dynasty: "if you want to send Shaobao to supervise the division, you must plow the court and sweep away the acupoints, in order to punish the heaven." Chen Yi's poem in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Nanjing and Shanghai: a million masters went to the east of the Yangtze River, and it was Chiang Kai Shek who hastily left the temple. It's the most common thing to do when you lose your heart.

Analysis of Idioms

A close synonym: plowing and sweeping