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
Face like dust
addicted to drinking , smoking , etc. - wǔ dú jù quán
wake up as one from a drunken sleep - rú zuì chū xǐng
work out the plot before putting pen to paper - yì zài bǐ qián
the words still ring in one 's ears - yán yóu zài ěr
cannot bear to think of the past - bù kān huí shǒu