Ask the sheep to know the horse

Ask the sheep to know the horse

Ask sheep to know horse, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è NY á ngzh ī m ǎ, which means to figure out the truth from the side. It comes from the biography of Zhao Guanghan.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu's biography of Zhao Guanghan in Hanshu of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "if you want to know about the horse, you should first ask the dog, then the sheep, then the ox, and then the horse."

Idiom usage

He is good at analogy.

Examples

According to the stele of Li Dezheng, the governor of Jinling, written by Chen Xuling in the Southern Dynasty, "when you ask a sheep to know a horse, you can set up both the hook and the distance."