An embarrassing story

An embarrassing story

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ē NGL í h á nqi ǔ, which means poor diet. It comes from the selected works, Wang Bao's Ode to the sage.

Idiom usage

Yue Gong left his son in the book of food, but he didn't accept it. He said, "it's useless to make a mess of the soup."

Analysis of Idioms

synonym: ganchenhanqian antonym: delicacies

The origin of Idioms

Wang Bao's "praise of the sage to the virtuous minister" in Wenxuan: "those who have made a fool of themselves are not good enough to talk too much."

Idiom explanation

Chenopodium album is a wild vegetable. Poor diet. It's also called "the embarrassment of the soup".