difficult to keep someone against his will(xīn qù nán liú)

difficult to keep someone against his will

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ī NQ ù n á NLI ú, which means that the heart has been elsewhere and it is difficult to retain. It's from Wang sengru's self injury for Ji Ren in the Southern Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Wang sengru's poem "self injury for Ji people" in the Southern Dynasty: "the broken string can still be continued, the heart is the most difficult to stay."

Idiom usage

As a predicate; used to admonish

Analysis of Idioms

It's decided to go

Chinese PinYin : xīn qù nán liú