sanguinariness

sanguinariness

Grinding teeth and sucking blood, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ó y á sh ǔ nxu è, which means sharpening teeth and sucking blood. It's from the hard road to Shu.

The origin of Idioms

Li Bai, Tang Dynasty, wrote in the book Shu Dao Nan: "avoid tigers in the morning, avoid snakes in the evening, grind teeth and suck blood, and kill people like hemp."

Idiom usage

It's very ferocious. example there are a pair of huge lions squatting and opening their teeth to suck blood. The 23rd chapter of Zeng Pu's Nie Hai Hua