polish painstakingly

polish painstakingly

Carving the liver and carving the kidney is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is di ā og ā NL ò ush è n, which means the deliberate tempering of writing, the same as "carving the liver and carving the kidney". From postscript.

The origin of Idioms

Xu Yinfang's postscript in the Qing Dynasty: "although he carved the liver and the kidney extremely, he did not rent it."

Idiom usage

As predicate, object and attribute; used in writing.