Slander and grind to the bone

Slander and grind to the bone

Slander is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī ch á nm ó g ǔ, which means continuous slander can destroy people. It is the same as "accumulating and destroying bones". It comes from the selected works Jiang Yan's the first book of King yijianping.

The origin of Idioms

In Wen Xuan Jiang Yan's Yi Jian Ping Wang Shang Shu, it is said that "when an officer hears that he has accumulated money to destroy and sell money, he has accumulated slander. If he is far away, he will be suspected of stealing money. If he is near, he will be named unjustly." Lu Xiang noted: "words destroy the depth of slander, can be sold to grind the strength of gold and stone."

The biography of Jiang Yan in the book of Liang is quoted as "the bone of calumny".

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: jikuo Xiaogu, jikuo Xiaogu, jikuo Xiaogu

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing