To beat the grass and unintentional frighten away the snake hidden there
A county magistrate in Tang Dynasty named Wang Lu takes bribes and ignores justice, plunders people's wealth, thereupon the subordinates imitate a lot. Someone wrote the petition with the private gaining and skulduggery of his secretary .He read and wrote eight characters on the petiton: although you cut her grass, my snake has been startled also.
This idiom is used to compare that act unclassified and alarm someone eles.
[ [
duì 对
níu 牛
dàn 弹
qín 琴
] ]
To play the lute for a cow
[ [
tán 昙
huā 花
yī 一
xiàn 现
] ]
To appear briefly like the broad-leaved epiphyll flower
[ [
tiān 天
yī 衣
wú 无
fèng 缝
] ]
A seamless heavenly robe
[ [
tù 兔
sǐ 死
gǒu 狗
pēng 烹
] ]
trusted aids are eliminated when they finish their mission