badly bruised from flogging

badly bruised from flogging

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p í K à IR à uzhen à n. It describes being beaten seriously, mostly refers to being tortured cruelly. It comes from Bao Dai Zhi San Kan butterfly dream.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] black and white, all flesh and blood [antonym] perfect

Idiom usage

The two of them raised the board, beat and yelled. (Chapter 51 of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty)

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of yuan · Guan Hanqing's "Baodai Zhisan Kan butterfly dream" is: "how can I falter all over my body? It's like a gourd without a mouth. It's hard to hurt my skin."