idiom > Saved by the lead foot
Contents
Jiujingyinzu
  Explanation: By: hanging, hanging; cited: pull; save it to pull people hanging to his feet. Analogy to do with the desire to go against
  Usage: Joint type; as object, attribute; metaphor opposite action and purpose
  Source: Xun "Xunzi Zhong Nigeria": "fail to materialize almost free rape heart line can not help but almost rape Road, while seeking the name of a gentleman saint, the provision of a still-volt and Shi days, to save their feet by the argument also."
No. 2
  Citation: La; by: hanged. Save it to pull people hanging to his feet. Metaphor of action and purpose contrary, bigger and farther away from the purpose.
Translated by Google
No. 3
  词目 救经引足
  发音 jiù jīng yǐn zú
  释义 引:拉;经:缢死。救上吊的人却去拉他的脚。比喻行动与目的相反,越做越离目的越远。
  出处 《荀子·仲尼》:“志不免乎奸心,行不免乎奸道,而求有君子、圣人之名,辟之是犹伏而咶天,救经而引其足也。”
  示例 宋·张守《毗陵集·再论增置教授状》:“而乃置教官数十员,何异适楚而北辕,救经而引其足耶!”
Thesaurus
alien, try to go south by driving the chariot north-act in a way that defeats one's purpose, the result is just the contrary, things go contrary to one's wishes, contradistinction