三顾茅庐 / 三顧茅廬

sān gù máo lú

Meaning

• literally to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 Sān guó Yǎn yì in which Liu Bei 刘备 Liú Bèi recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 Zhū gě Liàng to his cause by visiting him three times)
• figuratively to make earnest and repeated requests of someone

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