认贼作父 (認賊作父)
rèn zéi zuò fù
Pinyin
Definition
认贼作父 (認賊作父)
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- lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal
- to sell oneself to the enemy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 worker
- 2 workshop
- 3 (slang) troublesome
- 4 high-maintenance (person)
- 1 one's conduct
- 2 deed
- 3 activity
- 4 accomplishment
- 5 achievement
- 6 to act as
- 7 as (in the capacity of)
- 8 qua
- 9 to view as
- 10 to look upon (sth as)
- 11 to take sth to be
Idioms (20)
一日为师,终身为父
- 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
以身作则
- 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
作威作福
- 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
作茧自缚
- 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- 2 hoist by his own petard
作鸟兽散
- 1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
- 2 fig. to head off in various directions
- 3 to flee helter-skelter