1. lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 (SānguóYǎnyì) in which Liu Bei 刘备 (LiúBèi) recruits Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 (ZhūgěLiàng) to his cause by visiting him three times)

2. fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb