be overawed by sb.'s name

be overawed by sb.'s name

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is w é nm í n à s à n à D à n, which means to be scared when you hear a name. It has a great reputation, which makes people fear when they hear it. It comes from the prequel of Yongqing Shengping.

Idiom explanation

be overawed by sb.'s name

[Pinyin] W é nm í n à s à n à D à n

I'm scared when I hear the name. It has a great reputation, which makes people fear when they hear it.

Idioms and allusions

[source] the eighth chapter of the prequel of Yongqing Shengping by Jiang Zhenming in Qing Dynasty: "so he spent three years on the ground in Shaanxi Province. The bandits in the green forest were so famous that they were frightened by the shadows."

Let's give an example to make a sentence: if posterity doesn't ask the reason, they all believe in the Dharma, won't they stop eating for choking? The 21st chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty

[example] Chapter 6 of Guo Qingming's the story of the sword: "Liang Yongsheng, who scared the devils and traitors, is the one who made a big noise in Huangjia town."

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: yyfs

Once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of a well

Antonym: indomitable

Xiehouyu: a long worm drilling a crack in the ground

Lantern riddle: fish bones stuck in the throat do not eat fish

Usage: used as attributive, predicate and object; refers to mechanical handling

Throw away the apple business of the core

Used as a predicate or attributive