gnash the teeth with angry looks

gnash the teeth with angry looks

Angry eyes and teeth, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ē nm ù Qi è ch ǐ, which means extremely angry. It comes from the biography of Zhang Yi in historical records.

The origin of Idioms

Sima Qian's biography of Zhang Yi in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty said, "it is a travel in the world, so the scholars who talk about it all day and night, and they can't help but look at their teeth and say that they are the masters of people."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: clench your teeth [antonym]: be pleasant

Idiom usage

As predicate, attributive, adverbial; describe the appearance of anger example and the whole country, no matter for officials, scholars, farmers, workers, monks, as common , bustling arm and wrist, surging. Liang Qichao's Xinmin Shuo