借刀殺人
Chinese
- to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of
knife to kill someone; murder; homicide trad. (借刀殺人) 借 刀 殺人 simp. (借刀杀人) 借 刀 杀人 Literally: “to borrow a knife to kill someone”.
Pronunciation
Idiom
借刀殺人
- to get someone else to do one's dirty work; to attack someone using the strength of another
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