Tiger in front door, wolf in back door

Tiger in front door, wolf in back door

It is a Chinese word, pronounced Qi á nm é NQ ù h ǔ, H ò um é NJ ì NL á ng, which means driving away one enemy and another.

explain

This is a metaphor for driving away an enemy and coming another.

source

Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in Zhou Ji of Shi Gang Ping Yao: "the master of Qin defeated the three Jin Dynasties was Shimen. I'd like to give you a good service. " A tiger in the front door, a wolf in the back. The unknown is a disaster or a blessing. "

Discrimination

Close synonym: to take care of one thing and lose the other, the front door to the tiger, the back door to the wolf

usage

Complex sentence; as object, clause; with derogatory meaning