开门揖盗 — Chinese idiom
开门揖盗
kāi mén yī dào
Traditional: 開門揖盜
Meaning
- leaving the door open invites the thief ; to invite disaster by giving evildoers a free hand
Character by character
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 门méngate, door, entrance, opening
- 揖yīto bow, to salute; to defer, to yield
- 盗dàoto rob, to steal; thief, bandit
Idioms sharing a character
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 别开生面 bié kāi shēng miàn
- 喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi
- 大开大合 dà kāi dà hé
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 左右开弓 zuǒ yòu kāi gōng
- 广开言路 guǎng kāi yán lù
- 情窦初开 qíng dòu chū kāi
- 放开手脚 fàng kāi shǒu jiǎo
- 旗开得胜 qí kāi dé shèng
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