scrape the dirt off an object and make it shine
Scrape dirt and polish, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ā g ò um ó Gu ā ng, which means scrape dirt and polish out light. Metaphor makes things shine again. It's also like thinking about it carefully. It comes from the explanation of persuading learning.
The origin of Idioms
Han Yu, Tang Dynasty, wrote in his book quanxue Jie: "to be picky, to be clean and polished."
Idiom usage
I think about xiaoshengyingchuangshixue case, and I am full of learning. The first book of the romance of the Western chamber by Wang Shifu in Yuan Dynasty
scrape the dirt off an object and make it shine
Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit - jìng ruò chǔ zǐ,dòng ruò tuō tù
not let others express their views - dù jué yán lù