Carving liver and kidney

polish painstakingly

Diao Gan Zhuo Shen is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is di ā og ā nzhu ó sh è n, which means the deliberate tempering of writing. It's from "a gift to Cui Li.".

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu of Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "to Cui Lizhi to comment on the incident", which said: "you are advised to keep your guard and wait for the recruitment. You don't have to worry about your liver and kidney."

Idiom usage

As predicate, object and attribute; used in writing. He shakes his head in the morning and frowns in the evening. He carves his heart and his kidney and hears it. Song · Ouyang Xiu's poem "reply to Sheng Yu Mo's drinking"