借刀殺人
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Chinese[edit]
to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of |
knife | to kill someone; to murder | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
trad. (借刀殺人) | 借 | 刀 | 殺人 | |
simp. (借刀杀人) | 借 | 刀 | 杀人 | |
Literally: “to borrow a knife to kill someone”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
借刀殺人
- to get someone else to do one's dirty work; to attack someone using the strength of another
Synonyms[edit]
Dialectal synonyms of 借刀殺人 (“to attack someone using the strength of another”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
---|---|---|
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 借刀殺人 | |
Mandarin | Taiwan | 借刀殺人 |
Singapore | 借刀殺人 | |
Cantonese | Hong Kong | 借刀殺人 |
Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 借刀殺人 |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 借刀殺人 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 借刀殺人 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 借刀殺人 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 借刀殺人 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 借刀㓾人 | |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 借刀刣儂 |
Categories:
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Hakka lemmas
- Hokkien lemmas
- Chinese four-character idioms
- Mandarin four-character idioms
- Cantonese four-character idioms
- Hakka four-character idioms
- Hokkien four-character idioms
- Chinese idioms
- Mandarin idioms
- Cantonese idioms
- Hakka idioms
- Hokkien idioms
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Thirty-Six Stratagems