carp

carp

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Chu ī m á oqi ú C ī. It refers to deliberately picking on other people's shortcomings, looking for mistakes, or pointing to small faults. It comes from Han Feizi · general.

Idiom explanation

Seek: seek; fault: fault. Blow the hair off the skin and look for scars. It is used to refer to deliberately finding fault with others and looking for mistakes.

The origin of Idioms

"Han Feizi · general": "it's difficult to find small faults without blowing hair, and it's difficult to find out if you don't wash dirt."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attributive, or object; used of deliberate nitpicking