请君入瓮 in English qing3 jun1 ru4 weng4 Meaning

Meanings

  • literally (word for word) please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiomatic expression)
  • metaphorically to give somebody a taste of his own medicine

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Pinyin

qing3 jun1 ru4 weng4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

qing3to ask jun1monarch ru4to enter weng4variant of 甕|瓮[weng4]