indulge in idle gossip
Long story short, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu à ch á ngshu à Du à n, which means to comment on others' good or bad. The source is he Dian.
The origin of Idioms
The fifth chapter of he Dian written by Zhang Nanzhuang in Qing Dynasty: "at first, I was afraid that the female ghost would have a long story to say and hide it from him."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, object and attribute
indulge in idle gossip
heart startled and gallbladder broken -- extremely frightened - jīng xīn dào dǎn