Golden cicada without shell

Golden cicada without shell

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Tu ō K é J ī NCH á n, which means to use stratagem to escape. From Xie Tianxiang.

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of Yuan Dynasty Guan Hanqing's Xie Tianxiang: "I will do some tricks to break my stomach, and I can't find a golden cicada who can't get rid of the shell." For details, please refer to "golden cicada shelling".

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences