Raising tigers brings disaster(yǎng hǔ zì yí zāi)

Raising tigers brings disaster

It is a metaphor for conniving at the enemy and reserving future trouble. It's the same as "raising tigers has its own problems.".

Idiom explanation

[idiom]: raising a tiger will bring disaster

[Pinyin]: y ǎ NGH ǔ Z ì y í Z ā I

Explanation: it refers to conniving at the enemy and leaving behind the future trouble. It's the same as "raising tigers has its own problems.".

explicate

Yi: the same legacy, left; disaster: disaster, disaster. If you don't get rid of the tiger, it will become a future trouble. It's a metaphor for conniving at bad people and bad things and leaving behind future troubles.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: the second fold of Ming Kanghai's zhongshanlang: "today, the dead ape will bring disaster to the wood, but who is willing to raise a tiger will bring disaster."

Discrimination of words

usage

To connive at the enemy

words whose meaning is similar

Nourishing carbuncle will bring about trouble, letting the tiger go back to the mountain, and endless trouble in the future

antonym

Eliminate evil and root

Chinese PinYin : yǎng hǔ zì yí zāi