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!meat; flesh !lie down !leather; skin; fur |- !trad. (食肉寢皮) | 食 | 肉 | 寢 | 皮 |- !simp. (食肉寝皮) | 食 | 肉 | 寝 | 皮 |}

Idiom

食肉寢皮

1. to eat somebody's flesh and sleep on their hide; to swear revenge on somebody, implacable hatred, to have somebody's guts for garters, to bitterly detest

References

• “BOOK. IX. DUKE XIANG”, in Chunqiu Zuo zhuan (in English), accessed 2011-02-27
• Lu Xun (1918) A Madman's Diary