be at sb.'s mercy

be at sb.'s mercy

"I'm the butcher, I'm the fish" means that the power of life and death is in the hands of others, and I'm in the position of being slaughtered. This idiom comes from the historical records of Xiang Yu. The original sentence is: Fan Kuai said: "great deeds do not care about delicacy, great rites do not say small concessions. Now people are the masters of the sword, and I am the fish. Why not Later, it evolved into the idiom "man is the butcher, I am the fish".

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It's not a man-made Dao Zu, I'm a fish, when is the time to live under the fence? In the flood of the great revolution by Zhu Daonan

usage

To be in a passive situation

story

During the battle between Chu and Han, Xiang Yu stationed 400000 troops in Hongmen, Xinfeng, and the counselor fan Zeng designed to get rid of Liu Bang. Liu Bang went to Hongmen banquet in accordance with the contract. Fan Zeng invited Xiang Zhuang to dance a sword, intending to kill Liu Bang. Zhang Liang called fan Kuai, and Liu Bang took the opportunity to go to the toilet to discuss with fan Kuai how to escape. Fan Kuai said, "now people are the prey, I'm the fish. What can I say?"