stricken

stricken

Blue nose and purple eyes, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B í Q ī ngy ǎ NZ ǐ, which means blue nose and purple eyes; it describes serious facial injury. From sweet chicory.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Shishan's sweet chicory: "sure enough, after a few days, when they were beating wheat in the field, the four black cows found a crack and beat sweet chicory black and blue."

Idiom usage

It is used as attributive and adverbial to describe a person's injury.