Dust and chaff

Dust and chaff

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch é ng ò UB ǐ K ā ng, which means to refer to trivial and useless things. It's from Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: a pillar

The origin of Idioms

"Zhuangzi xiaoyaoyou" says, "it is the dust and chaff that casts Yao and shun from pottery."

Idiom usage

To use a metaphor for something humble and useless. For those who are not able to cast Yao and Shun in the world, they know that it is not a good way to educate people by using books to draw history. Moreover, if saints do not die, they are afraid of evil. (Zhang Binglin's book with Wu junsui)