欲加之罪，何患無辭 yù jiā zhī zuì ， hé huàn wú cí

DEFINITIONS

  1. If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb
  2. Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.

CHARACTERS

欲 yù
HSK 6
desire, want, long for; intend
加 jiā
HSK 3
add to, increase, augment
之 zhī
HSK 4
marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to
罪 zuì
HSK 6
crime, sin, vice; evil; hardship
何 hé
HSK 4
what, why, where, which, how
患 huàn
HSK 6
suffer, worry about; suffering
無 wú negative, no, not; lack, have no
辭 cí words, speech, expression, phrase