Good flesh gouges out sore

Good flesh gouges out sore

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ǎ or ò UW ā NCHU ā ng, which means to refer to making trouble out of nothing. It comes from huitongxindan, a continuation of zhuandenglu by Shi Weibai of Song Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Make trouble out of nothing

The origin of Idioms

Shi Weibai of the Song Dynasty wrote in the book of continued biography of lanterns: huitongxindan: "talking about Buddha and ancestors is just like gouging out a sore with good flesh; holding up the past and the present is just like scraps of rancid rice."

Idiom usage

It's more formal; it's a predicate; it's derogatory; it's a metaphor for making trouble out of nothing. It's just like gouging out the flesh. Everything is normal and falls into the world. Song · Shi Wuming's liandenghuiyao · Zen master Ji