Iron prison and bronze cage
The Chinese idiom Ti ě y ù t ó NGL ó ng in pinyin means a tight prison. It's from starry sky: lone bamboo gentleman II.
The origin of Idioms
Guo Moruo's "starry sky: lone bamboo gentleman II" said: "there are iron cages for enslavement, and there are dangerous, ruthless, shady, greedy, swarming like bees."
Idiom usage
It is often used in figurative sentences.
Chinese PinYin : tiě yù tóng lóng
Iron prison and bronze cage
a person who looks down upon everyone and fancies that nobody dare do anything to him. mò yù dú yě
with the tongue in the cheek. xián wài yǒu yīn