thieves and police work together , as the cat and the rat sleep together(māo shǔ tóng mián)

thieves and police work together , as the cat and the rat sleep together

Cat and mouse sleep together, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ā OSH ǔ t ó ngmi á n, which means that the cat sleeps with the mouse. It refers to officials' dereliction of duty, shielding their subordinates from doing bad things, and also refers to collusion. It comes from the five elements annals of the new Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the new book of the Tang Dynasty, five elements annals: "in November of the first year of longshuo, Luozhou was a place where mice and cats lived together. The rat is hidden, like theft; the cat catches the rodent, but is the same as the rat, like the thief, abandoning the job and allowing the traitor. "

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as object, attribute; metaphor up and down in collusion.

Examples

It's all slander and flattery. (Lin Chong's sword by Li Kaixian of Ming Dynasty, the sixth)

Chinese PinYin : māo shǔ tóng mián