Three-legged frogs are hard to find, and there are really a lot of idioms with three words.
The idioms we usually talk about are mostly four-character idioms. But there are some idioms that really don't look like idioms, such as the following three-character idioms.
【Bull Ear】
[source] "Zuo Chuan: The Eighth Year of Lu Dinggong":
Guards, please hold the bull's ears.
【Interpretation】In ancient times, the princes held an alliance and made a covenant to taste a little animal blood for each person, and the person presiding over the alliance cut the ox's ear with his own hands to take blood, and drank or smeared the blood on his lips to show his sincerity, so he used "holding the ox's ear" to refer to being the leader of the alliance. Later, it refers to a leadership position in a certain area.
【Word Master】
【Source】Five Dynasties Wang Dingbao "Tang Jiayan Discussion"
Li Xiang read "Spring and Autumn", the "婼" of the uncle and grandson should be read "Slightly cut", Li mistakenly for "Epoch Cut", the little official said, the public was ashamed, "ordered the little official to receive the gift from the north, called 'the word teacher'".
【Interpretation】It is a metaphor for a person's open-mindedness to learn and Xi, even if he knows one more word or understands one thing than himself, he can be his teacher.
【Aduwu】
【来源】《世说新语·规箴》：
Wang Yifu is elegant and Xuanyuan, often jealous of his wife's greed, and he has never tasted the word money. The woman wanted to try it, so that the maid could not use the money. Yifu got up in the morning, saw Qian Qixing, and called the maid and said: Lift a blockage.
[Interpretation] that is, money. "Adu" is the colloquial meaning of "this" during the Six Dynasties. Wang Yifu never said "money" because of his taste, and his wife piled copper coins around the bed.
【Contents of the Cup】
[source] Jin Tao Qian's "Blame":
Heaven is lucky, and it is in the cup.
【Interpretation】The contents of the cup mainly refer to wine.
【Book Bag Drop】
[source] Song Ma Ling's "Southern Tang Dynasty Book: Peng Yong's Biography":
For the childish family members, the slaves are arrested, and the words must be based on the history of the book, and the sentences are broken out of context to talk about it on behalf of the common people, which is commonly known as dropping the book bag.
[Interpretation] refers to the talent of showmanship. Nowadays, it is often called "book bags" for those who speak well and quote scriptures and sell their knowledge.
【Contents in the Pool】
【来源】《三国志·周瑜传》：
Now the land is cut off to capitalize on the industry, gather these three people, all in the territory, the dinosaur gets clouds and rain, and it is not the thing in the pool.
[Interpretation] was originally a metaphor used by Zhou Yu, saying that Liu Bei was ambitious and unwilling to live in a corner. Later, it was used as a metaphor for people who have no ambitions and are content with the status quo.
【Outsiders】
[Source] Li Ji "Ancient and Modern Poems: Poems":
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Shuzhou had Tang Qiu, who was open and easy, and outsiders were also.
[Interpretation] refers to a person who is not involved in the world or does not adhere to the laws of the world.
【Knife and Pen Officer】
[Source] "Warring States Policy: Qin Ce V":
The minister is the Qin knife pen, and the official is the chief and the petty official, and he is not the head of the army.
【Interpretation】In ancient times, I used a pen to write on bamboo slips, and if I wrote it wrong, I scraped it with a knife and wrote it again. Refers to a person who writes an official document or pleading.
【Host】
[source] Zuo Qiu Ming's "Thirty Years of the Duke of Zuo":
If she Zheng thinks that he is the host, the exchange of luggage will be difficult and difficult, and you will not be harmed.
Interpretation: The host refers to the host of the ancient Chinese folk banquet and the guests. If a guest comes from the west, the host is called the host, and if the guest comes from the south, the host is called the host. Generally refers to the host who receives or entertains guests.
【Closed-door】
[Source] Tang Feng Zhen's "Yunxian Miscellaneous Records" Volume 1:
Shi Feng, Xuancheng prostitute. Treat guests with equal differences...... The following do not meet each other, and they will be treated behind closed doors.
When a high-ranking prostitute surnamed Shi was unwilling to receive inferior customers, she would pay her a spoon to show her refusal. When the guests saw the soup, they immediately understood and automatically retired. Now it means that the host refuses to allow guests to enter the door, which is called letting guests eat behind closed doors.
【Fisherman】
[Source] "Liezi Tangwen":
And the country of Longbo has an adult, and he is not a few steps away from the place of the five mountains, and he is fishing and even six fish, and he returns to his country with the negative and interesting, and burns his bones to count. ”
【Interpretation】Fishing: Fishing hooks, Ao: Legends of the big turtle in the sea. The metaphor has a bold mind and great ambitions.
【Dongjiaqiu】
【来源】《魏书·邴原传》：
Jun is abandoned, tiptoeing thousands of miles, the so-called Zheng is the owner of the hill.
Confucius's western neighbor did not know that Confucius's talent was outstanding, and he contemptuously called it "Dongjiaqiu". It refers to a lack of knowledge and understanding of people. Later, it is often used as an allusion to those who are highly talented and not recognized by the world. The metaphor refers to the fact that the sages are not known to the world.
【Exploration Beads】
【来源】《叔苴子·外编》：
In the past, people heard that there were Xuanzhu in the red water, and they explored it with each other.
【Interpretation】The metaphor does not know how to pretend to understand, and it is half-understood.
【Tile Frost】
【来源】唐·张籍《赠姚怤》：
May it be a spring in the stone, not frost for the tile.
Frost on the roof tiles. Parables have existed for a very short time.
【Nakayama Wolf】
【来源】曹雪芹《红楼梦》：
The sub-line of the mountain wolf, the ambition is rampant.
Golden boudoir willow, a load to sorghum.
[Interpretation] describes the kind of person who is ungrateful and will take revenge.
【Holding a broom】
[source] "Lü's Spring and Autumn Season and Autumn Season":
If this is not available, the internal quantity of all countries is not enough to hurt Wu, and the princes of foreign affairs cannot harm him, then the lonely will abandon the country, release the mountains, serve the sword and arm, change the appearance, change the name and surname, and hold the broom and serve the ministers, so as to fight with the king of Wu for the death.
【Interpretation】Hold: take. Refers to cleaning. In ancient times, it was used to serve as a servant or wife.
【One petal of incense】
[Source] Song Chen Shidao "Guanyan Wenzhong Gongjia Liuyitang Book":
It has always been a petal of incense, and it is dedicated to Zeng Nanfeng.
【Interpretation】One petal: that is, a stick of incense. Express the devotion of your heart with a lit stick of incense. It is often used to express reverence for teachers.
【Muddy flocculent】
[Source] Song Shenliao "Answer to Hangzhou Prostitute":
消得留春春且住。 不比杨花，轻作沾泥絮。
[Interpretation] means that the catkins stained with soil no longer fly. It is a metaphor for people who are lonely and not moved by external influences.
Source: Poetry World
Editor丨Zheng Wei