借刀杀人 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 借刀殺人 jièdāoshārén ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄉㄠ ㄕㄚ ㄖㄣˊ to lend sb a knife to kill sb to get sb else to do one's dirty work to attack using the strength of another (idiom) Character by character 借(jiè)borrow 刀(dāo)surname Dao 杀(shā)kill 人(rén)person A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0