The devil is in the lurch(guǐ làn shén jiāo)

The devil is in the lurch

GUI LAN Shen Jiao is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Gu ǐ L à NSH é NJI ā o, which describes the fierce fire that killed many people. It comes from Lu Hun's mountain fire and Huangfu's rhyme.

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu's Lu Hun mountain fire and Huangfu use their rhyme: "the four walls of Gaozhou are burned, and there is no escape."

Idiom usage

The fire was so fierce that many people were burned to death

Examples

In Qian Qianyi's Miscellaneous Poems in prison in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that "when the world is desolate and the earth is old, I can see the dead."

Chinese PinYin : guǐ làn shén jiāo