monstrous lie

monstrous lie

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is m á NTI à nd à Hu à ng, which means a big lie and describes an endless lie. It's from Jin Ping Mei CI Hua written by Xiaosheng, Lanling, Ming Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Big lies.

The origin of Idioms

The seventh chapter of Jin Ping Mei CI Hua, written by Lanling Xiaosheng of Ming Dynasty: "if you say that the Pianfang is the Zhengfang, you will lie to the heaven, and there is no truth at all."

Idiom usage

A big lie

Examples

Li Yu, Qing Dynasty, wrote in "naihetian · media deception": "you should know that all the lies are from the media population. I'm not talking about this big lie."