associate oneself with undesirable elements(tóng liú hé wū)

associate oneself with undesirable elements

The Chinese idiom, pronounced t ó ngli ú h é w ū, originally refers to the conformity of words and deeds with bad customs and social customs. The latter refers to doing bad things with bad people. It's from Mencius with all his heart.

The origin of Idioms

"Mencius heart bottom:" with the secular, in line with the dirty world

Idiom story

Mencius once talked with his student Wan Zhang that Confucius hated those people who were used to flattering. Although such people are called good people in the countryside, they are actually hypocrites who do not conform to their words and deeds, hypocritical and deceiving the world, and they are moral saboteurs. Wan Zhang asked, "I'm sorry that people call them good people, and they all show that they are good people. Why does Confucius call them moral Corruptors?" Mencius replied: "this kind of person is" like the vulgar, in line with the dirty world. "(he only agrees with the unreasonable phenomena of the secular world). He looks like a good person, but actually he can't play a good role at all." "With the vulgar, in line with the dirty world" simplified as "with the dirty".

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: help each other with evil, work in collusion, go with the flow Antonyms: clear-cut, clean

Idiom usage

In this paper, the author analyzes the relationship between the state and the state, and points out that it is necessary for the state to take advantage of the relationship between the state and the state. The 22nd chapter of Water Margin by Chen Chen in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : tóng liú hé wū