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

HSK 6

他犯了错却嫁祸于人。

Tā fàn le cuò què jiàhuòyúrén.

He made the mistake but shifted the blame onto others.

HSK 7-9

这种嫁祸于人的做法很卑鄙。

Zhèzhǒng jiàhuòyúrén de zuòfǎ hěn bēibǐ.

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

Tips

history

Recorded in 史记 (Records of the Grand Historian), Zhao section: Han didn't want to surrender to Qin because it wanted to dump the disaster onto 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