as wicked as possible

as wicked as possible

What not to do, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h é Su ǒ B ù w é I, which means you can do anything bad. It comes from the biography of Confucius in southern history.

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate; used in interrogative sentences

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Kong Xiu in the Southern History: "there is a child who is ten years old and steals a bunch of rice from his neighbor's family. Xiu is guilty of paying the prison case, or admonishing him. Xiu says: he can steal in ten years. Why not do it when he grows up?"

Idiom explanation

What else can't he do? You can do anything bad.

Idiom story

During the Southern Dynasties, when Kong Xiuzhi was a local official, he met a ten-year-old boy who cut his neighbor's rice. The neighbor sent him to court. Xiuzhi was punished as theft, and his subordinates pleaded for children. Xiuzhi said, "a person can be a thief at the age of ten, so what can't be done when he grows up?"