one 's beautiful teeth are as white as pearl buttons

one 's beautiful teeth are as white as pearl buttons

The Chinese idiom, CH ǐ R ú Bi ā Nb è I in pinyin, is used to describe neat and white teeth. It comes from the Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai.

The origin of Idioms

The fifth two of Gong Zizhen's Jihai Miscellaneous Poems in the Qing Dynasty: "the teeth are like the east of the Han Dynasty, and they don't learn to speak to each other.". The roof tiles are startling, and the Danhao circle is full of dew. "

Idiom usage

The teeth are neat and white.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: teeth like a shell, teeth like a shell