before the ink is dry

before the ink is dry

It is a Chinese idiom whose pronunciation is m ò J ì haiw è Ig ā n. It refers to an agreement or a covenant that has just been signed. It comes from Yu Shi Ming Yan, Yang Siwen meets an old friend in Yanshan.

interpretation

The ink is not dry yet. It refers to an agreement or a covenant that has just been signed.

source

Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan Yang Si Wen meets an old friend in Yanshan in Ming Dynasty: "where is the writer before the ink is dry?"

Examples

According to the Double Tenth agreement, the Kuomintang troops invaded the liberated areas of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan and the Central Plains on a large scale. (Chairman Mao to Chongqing by Tong Xiaopeng)