idiom > Daochitaia
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A holding down too
  Explanation: See "upside Tea."
  Source: "Old Tang Chuan Chen Yi Xing" Since three years, the right to steal a traitor, your majesty can not be held down too Ah, delegate trout handle. "
  Examples: All the conditions in China today, but interest is as to the value of rounding the occasion, flaw dance wait, the Guimou sorts of problems, not anti-Yu whom is ~ to teach him also. ★ Qing Xue "chip foreign About"
No. 2
  Mrs A: sword name. Inverted sword in the other, the hilt to others. Analogy the power to others, I myself suffered.
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No. 3
  dǎo chí tài ē
  〖解释〗太阿:宝剑名。倒拿着剑,把剑柄给别人。比喻把大权交给别人,自己反受其害。
  〖出处〗《旧唐书·陈夷行传》:“自三数年来,奸臣窃权,陛下不可倒持太阿,授人鳟柄。”
  〖示例〗况今驻华各使,惟利是视,以值修约之际,蹈瑕伺间,诡谋百出,不豫为之防,是~以授之也。 ——清·薛福成《筹洋刍议》
  〖用法〗 作谓语、定语;用于处事
  〖结构〗 动宾式
  〖近义词〗倒持泰阿、太阿倒持
  〖辨误〗阿不能念成a
Thesaurus
(literally) to hold the sword at the wrong end--to relegate one's power to a subordinate unwisely and suffer the consequences thereof
Containing Phrases
Daochitaia Invited heavy criticismDaochitaia Invited heavy criticism