刀俎 dāozǔ
dāozǔ
set phrase
sacrificial knife and altar
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '刀俎')
Contained in
- 人为刀俎，我为鱼肉(人為刀俎，我為魚肉) to be the meat on sb's chopping block; to be at sb's mercy
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一 本紀第一 武帝上 Volume 1: Emperor Wu 1 Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
- 卷一百九十九上 列傳第一百四十九上: 東夷 Volume 199 Biographies 149: Eastern Peoples Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 1
- 卷57 列傳第22 盧思道 李孝貞 薛道衡 Volume 57 Biographies 22: Lu Sidao, Li Xiaozhen, Xue Daoheng Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 1
- 《項羽本紀》 Annals of Xiang Yu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1