嫁祸于人

嫁禍於人

jiàhuòyúrén

idiom #57,208

Meanings

1 to shift the blame onto others
2 to pass one's misfortune onto someone else
3 to pass the buck

Characters

to marry off / to shift onto

disaster / misfortune

person / others

Examples

他犯了错却嫁祸于人。

Tā fàn le cuò què jiàhuò yú rén.

He made the mistake but shifted the blame onto others.

这种嫁祸于人的做法很卑鄙。

Zhè zhǒng jiàhuò yú rén de zuòfǎ hěn bēibǐ.

Pushing one's troubles onto others like this is despicable.

Tips

history

Recorded in 《史记·赵世家》 (Records of the Grand Historian, Zhao section): 韩国不愿入秦，是想把祸事转嫁给赵国 — Han didn't want to surrender to Qin because it wanted to dump the disaster on Zhao instead.

memory

嫁 literally means 'to marry off' — picture marrying off your misfortune (祸) to someone else (于人) so it becomes their problem.

Stroke Order

嫁 jià

祸 huò

于 yú

人 rén