开门揖盗
kāi​mén​yī​dào

to invite disaster

  • created sense approved 开门揖盗/開門揖盜 · kāi​mén​yī​dào · to invite disaster — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    开门揖盗 / 開門揖盜

    kāi​mén​yī​dào

    to invite disaster

    literally "to open the door and bow to a thief"; to invite disaster by associating with or giving a free hand to evildoers

    开门 (literal) → 开门/開門 · kāi​mén · to open a door 揖 (literal) → 揖 · yī · to invite 盗 (literal) → 盗/盜 · dào · thief

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense