Face like dust

Face like dust

Face like dust, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is mi à NR ú Hu à t à, meaning face like dust. Describe extreme fear. It can also be described as morbid. From Dunhuang Bianwen Ji Bu Bianwen.

The origin of Idioms

In Dunhuang Bianwen Ji Bu Bianwen: "when you go back to the wall to see Ji Bu, your face looks like earth, and your eyebrows are frequent." Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty wrote strange tales of Liaozhai. The king said, "Zhou Zuo sent out a letter to Xie Chen, but the public didn't finish it. His face was like ashes."

Analysis of Idioms

Face like earth, face like Earth

Idiom usage

Standing in front of sun Zhenbang's corpse and looking at him with two straight eyes, this donkey Taijun looks like ashes and his heart is like bamboo. The 23rd chapter of Liu Liu's Fire King Kong