三顾茅庐
三顧茅廬Meanings
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- 1.lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义[Sān guó Yǎn yì] in which Liu Bei 刘备[Liú Bèi] recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮[Zhū gě Liàng] to his cause by visiting him three times)
- 2.fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
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- 1.to sincerely and repeatedly request someone to take up a post
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Etymology
From the story of Liu Bei paying three visits to the thatched cottage of Zhuge Liang (later his chancellor) in order to recruit him during the late Eastern Han dynasty.
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