ashamed to associate with somebody

ashamed to associate with somebody

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Xi ū y ǔ w é IW ǔ, which means it's shameful to be with someone. Shame, shame, company, company. It comes from the biography of Danggu in the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye in the Southern Dynasty.

Idiom usage

It refers to shame and company. examples some of them steal names, so they make others feel embarrassed and tired of being tied up with the names of acquaintances, and decide to run away

Analysis of Idioms

[structure] verb object type [similar words] shame and force [antonym] proud [rhyme words] three wrong words and tiger, happy way and good old times, emperor and heaven have no relatives, only virtue is auxiliary, sleeping in mountains and valleys, hidden dragon and crouching tiger, eating and drinking, gambling, glorifying the ancestors, decaying, talking about the present and the ancient, destroying the bones of all people [time] ancient times [lantern riddle] cattle and sheep flock together

The origin of Idioms

Fan Ye's biography of Danggu in the book of the later Han Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty: between the capture of huanling, he was in charge of the absurdity of the famine policy, he was appointed to the eunuch Temple by the state, and he was ashamed to be a companion.

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 was ashamed to be associated with such a person as fan Kuai.