drive one 's friends to the side of the enemy

drive one 's friends to the side of the enemy

The Chinese idiom, w è IC ó ngq ū Qu è in pinyin, means to drive the birds to the jungle; it means to drive some people who could have been united to the hostile side instead of uniting others. It's from Mencius · Li Lou Shang.

Idiom explanation

Cong: Jungle; drive: drive.

The origin of Idioms

Mencius · liloushang: "those who drive away fish for the deep are otters. For Cong to drive the nobility, he was also a rower; for Tang Wu to drive the people, Jie and Zhou were also

Idiom usage

It means bad administration.

Examples

Day and night and garrulous, is to drive the birds, its from Ziqi very ear. Pu Songling's Liaozhaizhiyi hengniang in Qing Dynasty