utterly unscrupulous in its zeal to please its master

utterly unscrupulous in its zeal to please its master

Zhigou barks at Yao. Its pronunciation is zh í g ǒ UF è iy á O. it is a Chinese idiom, meaning that each person is his own master. From the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang's "Warring States strategy · Qi strategy".

Idiom story

During the Warring States period, Qi minister Tian Dan didn't care to scold his Diao Bo. He prepared a banquet to ask him what was wrong? Diao Bo replied that it was not that Yao was not sage, but that he was in charge of his own affairs. Tian Dan recommended him to the king of Qi. The king of Qi sent him to the state of Chu, which aroused the dissatisfaction of nine favorite ministers of the king of Qi and attacked Tian Dan. Diao Bo made an impassioned speech to save Tian Dan.

Idiom usage

[usage]: used as an object; used as a metaphor to describe a dog barking at Yao but not at all. In the biography of sun Fujia in the new book of Tang Dynasty, the dog barks at Yao. Yao is not unkind, but the dog barks because it is not his master. "Shiji · vol.92 · biography of Huaiyin Marquis No.32" and dog barking is not its master, there is no room for treason, so Kuai Tong avoids killing the Han ancestors. Biography of Li Jing in the old book of Tang Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Each dog is his own master