穿玻璃鞋

chuānbōlixié ㄔㄨㄢ ㄅㄛ ˙ㄌㄧ ㄒㄧㄝˊ

    • to be deliberately made life difficult for by someone in power

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Idiom惯用语 · Rarely used now

Literally
wear glass shoes
Meaning
A shortened form of 穿玻璃小鞋, 'to wear glass little shoes'; it means the same as 穿小鞋: to be deliberately made life difficult for by someone in power.

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