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Let the tiger out of the box

Time: 2022-01-31 09:48:06 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Let the tiger out of the box

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ò NGH ǔ ch ū Xi á, which means to let the tiger out of the cage; it means to let the powerful enemy go, causing endless trouble; it is the same as "letting the tiger out of the cage". It comes from Hu Pai, the censor of the governor's capital.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Shunzhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote: "if you take the night when the moon is full and the black tide is full, you can drive a boat out of the harbor and carry it to the sea everywhere If you let the tiger go out of the box, you can't beat the words. "

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: a tiger in the air

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object.

Let the tiger out of the box


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