Lingaku- 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)
- fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
Generated definitions (experimental)
- to make earnest and repeated requests of sb
This idiom is used to describe someone making persistent efforts to persuade or recruit another person, indicating their determination and respect for the other person's abilities or opinions.
Liu Bei made three visits to the thatched cottage and finally invited Zhuge Liang to assist him.
In order to persuade him to join our team, I decided to make earnest and repeated requests.
Generated collocations (experimental)
sān gù máo lú三顾茅庐to make earnest and repeated requests of someoneyǐ以chéng xīn诚心sān gù máo lú三顾茅庐to sincerely request someone's help repeatedlysān gù máo lú三顾茅庐de的jīng shén精神the spirit of persistent and earnest requestssān gù máo lú三顾茅庐de的diǎn gù典故the historical allusion of three visits to the thatched cottagesān gù máo lú三顾茅庐qǐng请xián贤to invite talented individuals after making sincere effortsshòu dào受到sān gù máo lú三顾茅庐de的yǐng xiǎng影响to be influenced by the value of persistent pursuitSān三Gù顾Máo茅lú庐qiú求cái才to seek talent through earnest persistenceyīn因sān gù máo lú三顾茅庐ér而chéng jiù成就to achieve success through persistent requestssān gù máo lú三顾茅庐de的gù shì故事the story of the three visits to the thatched cottagesān gù máo lú三顾茅庐de的yàn yǔ谚语the proverb related to three visits to the thatched cottage