Foxtail millet
Mao FA Si Su, a Chinese idiom, is pronounced m á of à s à s à, which means to describe very small things. It comes from the book of neihan in Ouyang, Song Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Ouyang Xun of Song Dynasty wrote in the book of upper Ouyang neihan: "the talents with hair and millet are rising one after another."
Idiom usage
Commendatory words are used as objects and attributives; they are used to describe very small things.
Foxtail millet
finish penciling one 's eyebrows slightly - dàn sǎo é méi
Therefore, it is not a literary fault - suí fēi wén guò
birds of the same feather flock together - shēng qì xiāng qiú
address a person without an honorific title - tí míng dào xìng