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Lost dog, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à ngji à zh à Qu à n, meaning homeless dog. It's a metaphor for a person who has nowhere to go and runs around. It comes from historical records, Confucius family.

Idiom explanation

It refers to a person who has lost his support, has nowhere to run, and runs around.

The origin of Idioms

"There is a man in the east gate, whose name is like Yao, whose item is like gaotao, and whose shoulder is like Zichan. However, he is not as good as Yu Sancun, and he is like a lost dog."

Discrimination of words

[synonym]: a rat in the street, a fish in the net

Idiom usage

To be formal; to be an object; to be derogatory. In Ming Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's Ming Fengji: "birds depend on people; today, they have lost their families." This is what we have to do. We are just as busy as a lost dog and as anxious as a fish. ——According to Feng Menglong's Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the enemy was defeated and terrified.

Idioms and allusions

Once Confucius went to the state of Zheng and separated with his disciples. Confucius stayed at the east gate of the city wall in a daze. Someone in the state of Zheng said to Zigong, "there is a man beside the east gate. His forehead is like Yao, his neck is like gaotao, and his shoulder is like Zichan, but he is three inches away from Dayu from his waist. He looks like a "lost dog" when he is tired. Zigong told Confucius the whole story. Confucius said with a frank smile: "a person's appearance is trivial (or" unimportant "). But I'm like a homeless dog, that's true! That's true! "