The dog barks at Yao

The dog barks at Yao

Zhigou barks at Yao, a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is zh í g ǒ UF è iy á o, which means that each person is his own master. It comes from Qi CE, the strategy of the Warring States period.

Notes on Idioms

Metatarsal, same as metatarsal.

The origin of Idioms

In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang wrote in the Warring States strategy, Qi Ce: "the dog barking at Yao is not expensive but cheap. The dog barking at Yao is not its master."

Analysis of Idioms

Each dog is his own master

Idiom usage

Each metaphor is his own. The dog barks at Yao, not at all. New book of the Tang Dynasty biography of sun Fujia