桀犬吠尧 (桀犬吠堯) jié quǎn fèi yáo
jié quǎn fèi yáo
set phrase
Jie's dog barked at Yao
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: People act based on the nature of those that they serve (Guoyu '桀犬吠堯'; Mathews 1931 '桀犬吠堯', p. 104)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷七 帝紀第七 顯宗成帝 康帝 Volume 7 Annals 7: Emperor Cheng; Emperor Kang Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 桀犬吠尧无道 (桀犬吠堯無道) 言夏桀無道 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十七 志第十七 符瑞上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Auspicious Signs 1 — count: 4
- 伐桀犬吠尧 (伐桀犬吠堯) 湯遂率兵以伐夏桀 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《夏本紀》 Annals of Xia — count: 4
- 昔桀犬吠尧 (昔桀犬吠堯) 昔夏桀貴為天子 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十 敬慎 Chapter 10: Being Reverent and Catious — count: 4
- 言桀犬吠尧 (言桀犬吠堯) 並言夏桀 — 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: 3
- 桀犬吠尧作 (桀犬吠堯作) 夏桀作傾宮 — Bamboo Annals 竹書紀年, 夏紀 Records of the Xia — count: 2
- 桀犬吠尧时 (桀犬吠堯時) 夏桀時 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷五十四 Scroll 54 — count: 2
- 桀犬吠尧殷 (桀犬吠堯殷) 夏桀殷紂是也 — Xunzi 荀子, 解蔽篇第二十一 Chapter 21: Dispelling Obsession — count: 2