Eating tiger with meat

Eating tiger with meat

Eating a tiger with meat is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is ǐ R ò UD à NH ǔ, which means to mean to die for nothing. The same as "feed the tiger with meat". See "tiger with meat". It comes from Ming Li Zhi's Shi Gang Ping Yao Zhou Ji Nan Wang.

The origin of Idioms

Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in his book Shi Gang Ping Yao · Zhou Ji · Nan Wang: "it's like eating tiger's ear with meat to claim power."

Analysis of Idioms

The synonym is "to feed a tiger with meat"

Grammatical usage

As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences