Paint the ground and carve the wood
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu à D à K è m à, which means to go to prison and be interrogated. It comes from the book of Liang, the Confucian biography of Wang Seng.
The origin of Idioms
In the book of Liang, the Confucian biography of Wang Seng: "Gai painted the ground and carved the wood, which was hated by people in the past. How can I hear the thorns when they are tired? "
Idiom usage
I hate the warder very much.
Paint the ground and carve the wood
daily increasing and monthly benefiting - rì zēng yuè yì
The top down and the bottom down - dǎo guàn luò pèi
Honest officials can cut off housework - qīng guān nán duàn jiā wù shì
carry on what one's father started - kè shào jī qiú
take up a pen and complete an essay - yuán bǐ chéng zhāng