say yes and mean no

say yes and mean no

Face to face, heart to heart, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is mi à NSH à x à NF à I, which means one set on the surface, another set at the bottom of the heart. From the book of history Yi Ji.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of history Yi Ji, "if you disobey Ru Bi, you have no face to follow, and you have to say something later."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: face is right and back is wrong; antonym: heart is the same

Idiom usage

Ji Chang is loyal on the outside, treacherous on the inside, confusing the public with a sharp tongue, honest on the face and not kind in the end. The eleventh chapter of the romance of Fengshen by Xu Zhonglin in Ming Dynasty