亡羊 wáng yáng

wáng yáng phrase to lose a goat
Domain: Common Saying 俗语
Notes: Refers to a story in 莊子·駢拇 Zhangzi 'Pian Mu' about two people, one of whom loses a goat due to reading a book and one who loses a goat from fooling around (Guoyu '亡羊')

Contained in

• 亡羊补牢(亡羊補牢) to fix the pen after the sheep have escaped; too late to solve the problem
• 歧路亡羊 sheep lost at a fork in the road

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷第八 說符篇 Chapter 8: Explaining Conjunctions Liezi 列子 — count: 2
• 卷十六　說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 1
• 《外篇‧駢拇》 Outer Chapters - Webbed Toes Zhuangzi 莊子 — count: 1
• 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
• 卷十七　楚四 Chapter 17: Chu IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 1
• 卷十 Scroll 10 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1

Collocations

• 儿亡羊 (兒亡羊) 其後牧兒亡羊 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin — count: 2