unable to suffer the humiliation made by the warder even if he is a whittled phoney one

unable to suffer the humiliation made by the warder even if he is a whittled phoney one

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Xu ē m ù w é IL ì, which means you can't be insulted by the warder, even if it's made of wood, you can't see him. To describe the ferocity of a warder. It comes from the book of reporting ren'an written by Sima Qian of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty wrote in the book of reporting ren'an: "therefore, the scholars had to draw a picture of the land as a prison, not to enter the situation, to cut wood as an official, not to discuss, and to plan for Xianye."

Idiom usage

In ancient times, when cutting wood to be an official, where is today's pure wind? Cheng Yunsheng, Qing Dynasty