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The origin of Idioms

He knelt down to greet him and said, "the king is willing to be a minister." The letter went out and said with a smile, "life is a company with Kua and so on." Sima Qian's biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records

Idiom information

[idiom] shyness and fear [phonetic notation] Xi ū y ǔ Ku à IW ǔ [interpretation] 哙: fan 哙. Han Xin despised fan Kuai and disdained to be a Marquis with him. It's a shame to be with someone. [usage] as predicate and attribute; refers to shame and company. [structure] verb object style [age] ancient times [synonyms] be ashamed to be friends with others [opposite words] be proud of [words with the same rhyme] gray body and bones, master of Wancheng, zhuhuanhepu, full of pits and valleys, self reliant, block ran alone, leave the mountain to tune the tiger, lead a thorn in the side, small aunt alone, bleeding

The origin of Idioms

He knelt down to greet him and said, "the king is willing to be a minister." The letter went out and said with a smile, "life is a company with Kua and so on." Sima Qian's biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records

Idiom story

After the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang named fan Kuai "Wuyang Marquis", who had made great contributions at the Hongmen banquet. For fear that Han Xin, the great general, would hold his own weight, he changed his military power to the king of Chu, and then he was reduced to the Marquis of Huaiyin. Once Han Xin passed by fan Kuai's door, and fan Kuai knelt down to welcome Han Xin. After that, Han Xin regretted that he had been associated with such a person as fan Kuai and was ashamed of him.

Examples of Idioms

In the unit, because he is fastidious and good at making small reports in front of the leaders of the unit from time to time, as a result, people in the unit avoid him when they see him, and he becomes the object of everyone's shame.