long-drawn and tedious documents
Li á NPI ā NL ě ID ú, a Chinese idiom, is a long and tedious adjective, which comes from the book of Chaojia Fengyue · lipin.
The origin of Idioms
Yu Jiao of the Qing Dynasty wrote "a friend Zhou Hailu was intimate with him and gave him poems, which is like a lot of articles."
Idiom usage
Used as an attributive or adverbial
long-drawn and tedious documents
address each other as brothers - chēng xiōng dào dì
time slips away fast and the year is approaching its end - jí yǐng diāo nián
serve parents while living and give proper burial after death - yǎng shēng sàng sǐ
eat the soft and spit out the hard -- bully the good-natured and fear the ferocious - rú róu tǔ gāng