借古諷今 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 借古讽今 jiègǔfěngjīn ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄈㄥˇ ㄐㄧㄣ to use the past to disparage the present (idiom) Character by character 借(jiè)borrow 古(gǔ)surname Gu 諷(fěng)satirize 今(jīn)now A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0