difficult to keep someone against his will
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī NQ ù n á NLI ú, which means that the heart has been elsewhere and it is difficult to retain. It's from Wang sengru's self injury for Ji Ren in the Southern Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Wang sengru's poem "self injury for Ji people" in the Southern Dynasty: "the broken string can still be continued, the heart is the most difficult to stay."
Idiom usage
As a predicate; used to admonish
Analysis of Idioms
It's decided to go
difficult to keep someone against his will
make a laughing stock of oneself before experts - jiàn xiào dà fāng
give instructions after discovering the trace - fā zōng zhǐ shì
rush on like a swarm of hornets - fēng yōng ér shàng