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Chapter 41 hearsay

60 idiom stories 322Words 2018-03-20
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Mao Kong in the State of Qi. He liked to listen to unfounded legends, and then told others what he heard with relish.Once, when Maokong heard about a duck and a piece of meat, he found it very strange, so he told Aizi about it.He said: "There was a man who raised a duck that was particularly capable of laying eggs. That duck could lay more than a hundred eggs a day." Seeing Ai Zi smiled, he said: "That day, a piece of meat fell from the sky. The meat is thirty feet long and ten feet wide." Ai Zi smiled and asked: "Really? Is there such a long meat?" Mao Kong hurriedly said: "Oh, it is twenty feet long." Ai Zi The son still doesn't believe it.He changed his words again: "It must be ten feet long." Ai Zi said: "Whose family raised the duck you mentioned? Where did the piece of meat you mentioned fall?" Mao Kong hesitated and couldn't tell. , and finally had to say: "I heard it from others on the road."

The idiom "heard and heard" comes from this story.This idiom is a metaphor for hearing unfounded remarks or rumors on the road, and then passing them on to others.
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