ride a tiger and find it hard to get off(qí hǔ nán xià)

ride a tiger and find it hard to get off

It's difficult to ride a tiger. Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q í h à n á nxi à, which means you can't get down on the back of a tiger. It means that it is difficult to carry on a task, but the situation does not allow it to stop halfway, so it is in a dilemma. From the biography of Wen Qiao in the book of Jin.

Analysis of Idioms

They are in a dilemma and can't give up. Antonyms are going smoothly

Idiom usage

Serial verb; predicate, attribute; derogatory. The one million government bonds sold on the third of this month have become the trend of the world. We have to work hard to get there. It's there! Ten stories of Mao Dun's midnight

The origin of Idioms

"Wenqiao biography of the book of Jin:" today's situation, righteousness without heel, riding beast can be in the middle Li Bai's poem "farewell to the Guangling Princes" in Tang Dynasty: "riding a tiger does not dare to go down, climbing a dragon suddenly falls into the sky."

Idioms and allusions

When the Eastern Jin Dynasty became emperor, Minister Wen Qiao organized a coalition army to fight against the rebellious army. In the early days of the war, several allied forces were defeated one after another, and the army was running out of grain. This situation worried the commander-in-chief Tao Kan very much. He said angrily to Wen Qiao, "when you mobilized me, you said that everything had been arranged. Now the war is not long, and the military supplies are almost finished. If we can't supply the military supplies immediately, I have to withdraw." Wen Qiao said to Tao Kan: "since ancient times, if you want to win a war, you must first unite internally. Although our army is short of food and in a difficult situation, if we withdraw immediately, it will not only make people laugh at us, but also make the rebels more arrogant. Our current situation is just like riding on a beast. How can we get down without killing it? We have to work hard and stick to it Tao Kan accepted Wen Qiao's advice, led the army to kill the enemy bravely, and finally defeated the rebels. Wen Qiao advised Tao Kan that "riding a beast is safe and easy to go down", which later evolved into the idiom "riding a tiger is hard to go down". It means that it is impossible to stop when things develop to a certain extent, so it also means that it is in a dilemma. Allusion (new version) once upon a time, there was a hunter. By chance, he met a fierce tiger. He was aggressive and ferocious. It seemed that he was going to eat the hunter all at once. In a hurry, the hunter climbed up the tree. But the tiger seemed to be hungry and had been waiting for the hunter on the tree. At this time, the hunter was almost out of his mind and in a hurry When the hunter fell down, he just rode on the tiger's back. In a hurry, the hunter tightly grasped the tiger's neck. This time, the tiger was scared, so he ran away and wanted to throw away the man. This time, the tiger flew to a market town. Many people were very surprised when they saw it. They kept talking and saying: this guy really has the ability to ride a tiger! Who knows, the hunter on the back of the tiger timidly said, I'm hard to ride a Tiger now!

Chinese PinYin : qí hǔ nán xià