a matter of expediency
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qu á NY í zh ī C è, which refers to a temporary measure taken to cope with a certain situation. It comes from Ming Dynasty's Feng Menglong's xingshihengyan Zhang Xiaoji, Chen liuzhijiu.
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty wrote: "the old uncle of the former didn't know the details, so he used expedient measures. Now he knows it. How unreasonable."
Analysis of Idioms
An expedient measure
Idiom usage
In Feng Guifen's on borrowing troops from Russia and France in Qing Dynasty, "it is an expedient policy to use foreigners to reinforce the extraordinary way."
Chinese PinYin : quán yí zhī cè
a matter of expediency
make a concealed reference to sth.. zhǐ dōng shuō xī
as if a generation had passed. huǎng rú gé shì
one 's behavior and conversation. jǔ zhǐ yán tán
The sound of birds and the heart of beasts. niǎo shēng shòu xīn