The meaning of selling dog meat by hanging a sheep's head

"selling dog meat with a sheep's head" is often used as a metaphor for making signboards in a good name, but actually peddling inferior goods, which means "inconsistent appearance and cunning deceit". Let's take a look at the allusions and usage of "selling dog meat with a sheep's head" again.

The allusion of selling dog meat by hanging a sheep's head

The Ling Duke is a good woman and the husband is the one. The Chinese people are fully convinced. The minister banned the official and said, "those who are adorned by women and men will split their clothes and break their belts." Broken clothes and broken belts, look at each other but not only. When Yanzi saw this, the public asked, "how can I make officials ban women while men decorate them, break their clothing straps and look at each other without stopping?" Yanzi said to him, "the monarch obeys it on the inside, but forbids it on the outside, hanging the head of an ox at the door, and selling horse meat on the inside. If the public does not obey inside, then do not dare to do it on the outside. " The gong said, "good." , so that do not take, do not exceed the month, and the country is not convinced.

The translation of selling dog meat by hanging a sheep's head

The Duke of Qi Ling likes women to dress up as men, and all women in the country wear men's clothes. Linggong officials forbade them and pointed out: "the woman dressed as a man tore her clothes and ripped off her belt." Although people have seen people tear their clothes and rip off their clothes, they still can't be forbidden. When Yanzi came to see him, the Lord Ling asked, "I sent officials to prohibit women from dressing up in men's clothing, tearing their clothes and tearing off their clothes." Why? " Yanzi replied, "if you let a woman in the palace dress up as a man, but forbid it outside the palace, it is like hanging a cow's head at the door but selling horse meat inside. Why don't you let the woman in the palace not dress up as a man, then no one outside will dare?" The Lord Ling said, "good." Women are not allowed to dress up as men in the palace, and after a month, there will be no women dressed as men in the country.

The use of selling dog meat by hanging a sheep's head

1. This is an educational bookstore, but what it sells are pirated novels. It is simply selling dog meat by hanging sheep's head.

2. At present, some businesses simply hang sheep's head to sell dog meat advertising louder than anything else.

3. This is precisely the case with the present die-hards in China. What they call constitutionalism is nothing but "hanging sheep's heads and selling dog meat". (Mao Zedong's Constitutionalism of New Democracy)