an outcast(sàng jiā zhī gǒu)

an outcast

The lost dog, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à ngji à zh à g à u, meaning people who have lost their dependence, nowhere to run or panic. I don't know what to do. It comes from historical records, Confucius family.

The origin of Idioms

"There is a man in the east gate, whose name is like Yao, whose item is like gaotao, and whose shoulder is like Zichan. However, he is not as good as Yu Sancun, and he is like a lost dog." The second discount of yuan · Zheng Tingyu's houtinghua: "he is as busy as a lost dog and as anxious as a fish who has missed the net."

Idiom usage

People who are running around with their swords, lead the people to chase and kill all night. There are so many people who have been killed. He and Si are running for their lives in the West. They are as busy as a lost dog. The fourteenth chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: a lost dog antonym: brag

Idiom story

In the spring and Autumn period, Confucius led his students to give lectures in various vassal states. Because Confucius was a conservative, he was often ignored because he was not in tune with the vassal states at that time. Once Confucius and his disciples separated, Confucius stayed at the East Gate in a daze. Zigong asked Zheng people where Confucius was. Zheng Guoren said that there was an old man beside the east gate, like a lost dog in a daze

Chinese PinYin : sàng jiā zhī gǒu