stroke a tiger's whiskers(luō hǔ xū)

stroke a tiger's whiskers

[Pinyin]: Lu ō h ǔ x ū

Explanation: stroking: stroking along a long strip. It means to offend powerful people or take great risks. It's a metaphor for offending someone

Source: biography of Zhu Huan, Wu Zhi, Three Kingdoms

interpretation

Stroke the tiger's whiskers

Pei Songzhi quoted Zhang Bo's Wu Lu in Jin Dynasty: "Huan Fengyuan said:" I should go away. I wish I could smooth your Majesty's beard and have nothing to hate. " Quan Feng, a few years ago, stroked his beard before Huan Jin and said, "I really stroked the tiger's beard today." Right to laugh Later, he used "smoothing the tiger's whiskers" as a metaphor to tease the powerful, which means taking risks.

[example]: Han Luo's poem "peace of the poor" in Tang Dynasty: "to seek the body is clumsy, to secure the feet of the snake, to serve the country in danger, and to smooth the beard of the tiger."

"Five Lantern Festival yuan · Huang Bo Yun Zen master FA Si · Mu Zhou Chen zunsu": "the master said," if you want to come, you will fight now. " Then he took the palm. He said, "the wind shakes the Han people. They come here to smooth the tiger's whiskers."

The fifth chapter of outlaws of the Marsh: "good, but very good, just don't smooth the beard." Ming Mao monk Tan's "trouble with the door god": "with the wind, you can tell me that I'm not easy to be provoked. He doesn't want to stroke the tiger's whiskers lightly."

One of the poems in Da Yu written by Huang Zunxian in Qing Dynasty: "everything becomes a sniper, and danger is the same as stroking the tiger's whiskers." Song Sushi's Ci Yun Zhang an Dao read Du Shi: "riding a whale to escape the sea, smoothing a tiger to get a robe."

Wang Kaiyun's Preface: "if you make scales and smooth your whiskers, you can only sleep on the test plate."

Detailed introduction

General idiom

Emotional color: a neutral idiom

Idiom usage: used as an object or attributive

Idiom structure: verb object idioms

Ancient idioms

To stir up the bee and pick the Scorpion

[idiom example]: Xiong Zhaozheng's Zhang Juzheng, Vol.3, Chapter 20: "without Zhang Juzheng's support, how dare Qi Jiguang touch the tiger's beard?"

Bear the lion in his den

Chinese PinYin : luō hǔ xū