a dressed up horse or ox

a dressed up horse or ox

Ma niujin train, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ Ni ú J ī NJ ū, which means that horses and cows wear human clothes. It means people don't know etiquette. It's also a metaphor for animals in clothes. From the south of Fu Shu Shu Cheng.

Analysis of Idioms

Animals in clothes

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu's poem Fu Shu Shu Cheng Nan in Tang Dynasty: "there is no source for the decoration, but it has been eliminated in the morning and evening. People can't understand the past and the present, but horses and oxen have their skirts. If you are caught in injustice, you will have a good reputation. "

Idiom usage

To make a mockery of one's lack of propriety. example I have no ambition to rise after hearing the wind of filial piety. It's true. (Zhao Bi's biography of Zhao's Bo Zhong You Yi in Ming Dynasty) yuan and Gao Wenxiu's the second fold of meeting the Emperor: "he relied on the official to break up his wife and husband. It's really a train of horses and oxen! 」