be wavering and unable to decide(hú yí bù jué)

be wavering and unable to decide

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ú y í B ù Ju é. It is said that the fox is suspicious, so it is called suspicious. I'm confused and can't decide for a moment. It comes from the biography of Liu Biao in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

"Liu Biao Zhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty:" the expression of doubt is constant, but it is to send song to practice, to wait and see the reality. "

Idiom usage

When the county magistrate heard about it, he got up in doubt and thought to himself: did I admit it wrong? (the third chapter of Zui Xing Shi by Dong Lu Gu kuansheng in Ming Dynasty)

Idioms and allusions

The Yellow River freezes every winter, but in late autumn, the river just freezes, and the ice thickness is hard to estimate, so people dare not rush through the ice. So people came up with a way: let the fox walk through the ice first, if the fox can pass, then people and horses can boldly let go. This is to take advantage of the fox's suspicious and good listening behavior. When it walks on the ice, because it is very cautious, it always hesitates, because it listens to the sound of water flowing under the ice as it walks. If it can't hear clearly, it suspects that the ice is too thin to move forward; when it hears clearly, it will move on. So people use the fox to judge whether the ice can pass the human horse. This is the origin of the idiom "doubt".

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: indecisive, carefree and indecisive

Chinese PinYin : hú yí bù jué