借古讽今 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 借古諷今 jiègǔfěngjīn ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄈㄥˇ ㄐㄧㄣ to use the past to disparage the present (idiom) Character by character 借(jiè)borrow 古(gǔ)surname Gu 讽(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