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To beat the grass and unintentional frighten away the snake hidden there

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.


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