Sweep away a hole and plough a court

Sweep away a hole and plough a court

It's an idiom, the Chinese Pinyin s ǎ oxu é L í t í ng. Sweeping his dwelling place and plowing his courtyard is a metaphor for completely destroying the enemy. It's from Shengwu Ji.

Interpretation of Idioms

Sweep their homes and plow their courtyards. It means to destroy the enemy completely.

The origin of Idioms

The seventh volume of Shengwu Ji written by Wei Yuan of Qing Dynasty: "it's called the youngest chieftain, that is, sweeping away the holes and plowing the court, which is not enough to show martial arts."

Examples of Idioms

Guo Xiaocheng's "Sichuan Guangfu Ji" said: "Chongqing Shu military government, fitting Yunnan and Guizhou's aid troops to Sichuan, soon went out of the Qin Dynasty after the Han Dynasty, and together with our northern expedition army, they would go to the Central Plains to sweep away the caves and plow the court and drive out the Tartars." the tenth part of Yu Dafu's Miscellaneous Poems of separation and disorder: "I will immediately support sangding, sweep away the holes and plough the court, and then swear." It is also called "Sweeping Plough". Qian Qianyi of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the preface to the record of Tong's Secret indignation that "he had the ambition to sweep the plow when he raised the enemy's edge materials and painted the ashes to gather rice." Refer to "zanting point sweeping".

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, object, attribute; used in writing