以鄰為壑 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 以邻为壑 yǐlínwéihè ㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄨㄟˊ ㄏㄜˋ to use one's neighbor as a drain to shift one's problems onto others (idiom) Character by character 以(yǐ)use 鄰(lín)neighbor 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 壑(hè)gully A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0