三人成虎 [
sān rén chéng hǔ]
Three people spreading reports of a tiger make you believe there is one around.
A lie, if repeated often enough, will be accepted as truth.
A repeated slander makes others believe.
- 三人成虎,人言可畏啊!众口能铄金,真是一点都不错啊!
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - 后来人们根据这个故事引申出“三人成虎”这句成语,比喻听别人的话要仔细分析考虑,不要盲从相信。
The idiom "The testimony of three men creates a tiger in the market" later came to be used to teach people to consider carefully what others say, and not to take people's statements lightly. - 韩非子·内储说上》有“三人成虎”的故事:庞恭与太子质于邯郸,谓魏王曰:今一人言市有虎,王信乎?
Han Fei Chu said that in the "yes" three into a tiger, "the story: Prince Edward Pang Gong and quality in Handan, Wei Wang said that: this city has a different tiger, even Wang?