to start a fight in sb . else 's house(rù shǐ cāo gē)

to start a fight in sb . else 's house

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is R ù sh ì C ā og ē, which means to go to his room and take up his weapon to attack him. It means to quote the other party's argument to refute the other party. It comes from the biography of Zheng Xuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Cao: take; Ge: Ancient spear like weapons.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Zheng Xuan in the book of later Han Dynasty, "Ren Cheng He Xiu was good at studying Gongyang, so he wrote Gongyang Mo Shou, Zuo's Gao Huang and Gu Liang's waste disease.". Xuannai "hair" Mo Shou ", needle" Gao Huang ", from" waste disease ". When he saw it, he sighed and said, "is Kang Cheng coming into my room and fighting me?"

Idiom usage

It's more formal; it's a predicate or an object; it's a metaphor to use the other party's argument to refute him. He was so eloquent that when he entered the room to fight, he could not say a word.

Chinese PinYin : rù shǐ cāo gē