欲加之罪,何患无辞 [ yù jiā zhī zuì,hé huàn wú cí ]

基本释义

欲:要;患:忧愁,担心;辞:言辞,指借口。要想加罪于人,不愁找不到罪名。指随心所欲地诬陷人。

出 处

《左传·僖公十年》:“不有废也,君何以兴?欲加之罪,其无辞乎?”

英文翻译

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