a matter of expediency

a matter of expediency

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qu á NY í zh ī C è, which refers to a temporary measure taken to cope with a certain situation. It comes from Ming Dynasty's Feng Menglong's xingshihengyan Zhang Xiaoji, Chen liuzhijiu.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty wrote: "the old uncle of the former didn't know the details, so he used expedient measures. Now he knows it. How unreasonable."

Analysis of Idioms

An expedient measure

Idiom usage

In Feng Guifen's on borrowing troops from Russia and France in Qing Dynasty, "it is an expedient policy to use foreigners to reinforce the extraordinary way."