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
Same name but different reality - míng tóng shí yì
a lone phoenix and a widowed goose - gū hóng guǎ hú
The head of a donkey is not the mouth of a horse - lǘ tóu bù duì mǎ zuǐ
form a clique for selfish purposes - zhí dǎng yíng sī
i find myself not up to the honor accorded me - dāng zhī yǒu kuì