To destroy the top

To destroy the top

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ó zh ǒǒ ngmi è D ǐ ng, which means scratch from the top of the head to the heel. It's hard work, regardless of the body. It comes from the biography of Gao Yi in the book of the Southern Qi Dynasty.

The source of the idiom is "on the biography of Gao Yi in the book of the Southern Qi Dynasty": "the teaching of the Mohist school is to be thrifty and not to be stingy."