engaging one to hold the " knife " -- employ a person to write an essay in one 's name(qiàn rén zhuō dāo)

engaging one to hold the " knife " -- employ a person to write an essay in one 's name

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi à NR é nzhu à D à o, which means to ask someone to write for you. It comes from the biography of Chen Siwang Zhi in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Analysis of Idioms

Ask someone to catch a knife

The origin of Idioms

"Three Kingdoms · Wei Zhi · Chen Siwang Zhi Zhuan": "the speech is the theory, the writing is a chapter, Gu should be the interview, how can Qian people?"

Idiom usage

To ask someone to write for you. Example Liu Yiqing's Rongzhi, a new account of the world, in the Southern Song Dynasty: "the king of Wei was very elegant, but he was a knife hunter at the head of the bed. He was a hero."

Idioms and allusions

Emperor Wei Wu was going to meet the Hun envoys. He thought that his image was ugly and could not deter the distant country. He let Cui Jifan replace him. Emperor Wei Wu stood by the bed with a knife in his hand. After the meeting, the spy asked (Xiongnu envoy), "how about the king of Wei?" The emissary replied, "the king of Wei has different manners and prestige, but the man holding the knife by the bed is the real hero." When Emperor Wei Wu heard this, he sent people to hunt down the envoy.

Chinese PinYin : qiàn rén zhuō dāo