take away by force or trickery(qiǎo tōu háo duó)

take away by force or trickery

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ǎ ot ō uh á ODU ó, which means seizing other people's things. It comes from the end of the postscript to the second king of Mi Fu.

The origin of Idioms

Song Sushi's poem "the postscript to the second king of Mi Fu in the second rhyme" says: "it's a long time ago to steal and plunder, and a smile is like a tiger's head."

Idiom usage

Take something from others. A small town is so humble that Gai has to go there. Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of Qiuyu nunnery in Qing Dynasty

Idiom story

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Mi Fu, a calligrapher and painter, liked to collect authentic paintings and calligraphy. He used every means to get others' paintings and calligraphy. First, he borrowed them for research, then he refused to return them, and finally he copied one and returned it to the owner. Prime Minister Cai Jing is a calligrapher and painter. He also likes collecting. Many people go to pay tribute. Mi Fu tried every means to get Wang Xizhi's words from Cai you, Cai Jing's son.

Chinese PinYin : qiǎo tōu háo duó