what has been cannot be withdrawn(sì mǎ nán zhuī)

what has been cannot be withdrawn

Sima is hard to catch up with, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ì m ǎ n á nzhu ī, which means that it is hard to catch up with a car pulled by four horses even if a sentence is uttered. If you say something, you can't take it back. From Yan Yuan, Analects of Confucius.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] can't wait to talk, but have faith in words; and [antonym] can't move in a snail's pace, talk nonsense, and have no faith in words

The origin of Idioms

Yan Yuan, the Analects of Confucius: "it is too late for the master to say that a gentleman is a gentleman."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; participle; for people. Example: in zhuanci of Deng Xizi: "a word but not, Sima can't pursue; a word but urgent, Sima can't reach." How can a man repent when he says something that is hard to trace! The third part of Yuan Dynasty's Li Shouqing's wuyuanchuxiao (history of the new Five Dynasties, Volume 17, biography of the Jin family, biography of the empress li of Gaozu) says: "war moves repeatedly, and it's hard to catch up. Qi Shi's fault is his own. Who is to blame! In the second episode of killing a dog written by long Ziyou in Ming Dynasty, it is said that "today's words are easy to make friends, but it is hard for him to catch up. 」

Idioms and allusions

During the Five Dynasties, Shi Jingtang fought against the Tang Dynasty and was appointed emperor of Jin by Yelu Deguang, king of Qidan. After Shi Jingtang died, his son Shi Chongguang succeeded him to the throne. In 944, Khitan invaded the state of Jin, and the emperor led the army to resist. The Empress Dowager Li wrote a letter of surrender to ask the emperor aong to let them live, saying that his words were hard to follow.

Chinese PinYin : sì mǎ nán zhuī