开门揖盗
开门揖盗
kāi mén yī dào
leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand
idiom
Traditional: 開門揖盜
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- (idiom) leaving the door open invites the thief (idiom); to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand
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Related Words
引鬼上门(yǐn guǐ shàng mén)— to lead the devil to the door (idiom); to invite the attention of criminals
→孔融让梨(Kǒng Róng ràng lí)— Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
→天安门开了(Tiān ān mén kāi le)— pants fly is down
→一则以喜，一则以忧(yī zé yǐ xǐ , yī zé yǐ yōu)— happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)
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