Floating stone and sinking wood
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ú sh í ch é nm ù, which means to compare the reversal of right and wrong. It's from the new words: discrimination and confusion.
The origin of Idioms
Han Lujia's "new words: discrimination of doubts" said: "the reputation of the husband's mouth is destroyed, the stone is floating and the wood is sinking, the evil is restrained, and the straight is the melody."
Idiom usage
As an object, attributive; used as a figurative sentence example Wen Su's national foundation is clear, but not free from . Qian Qianyi's preface to the 70th birthday of Wang Feng
Floating stone and sinking wood
Painting a dragon is not a dog - huà lóng bù chéng fǎn wéi gǒu
Recognize a chicken as a Phoenix - rèn jī zuò fèng
assume an air of self-approbation - yáo tóu bǎi nǎo
display only a small part of one 's talent - xiǎo shì fēng máng