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Word Definition - 三顾茅庐
lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[sān guó yǎn yì] in which Liu Bei 劉備|刘备[liú bèi] recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[zhū gě liàng] to his cause by visiting him three times); fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb