A body of powder and bone
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ě ng ǔ m í Q ū, which means broken body. It comes from the table of the governor of Wuzhou, who is the Minister of Xue.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote in the table of the governor of Wuzhou for Xue Shijun: "the minister's body is pink and his body is thin, but he doesn't report one in ten thousand." Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty wrote in the form of the Minister of xiedou: "the body is too thin to know."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: to die or to pieces
Idiom usage
As a predicate, object, attribute; used for business, etc
A body of powder and bone
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leave a name that will stink to eternity - yí chòu wàn nián
put a round peg in a square hole - fāng ruì huán záo