Break your moustache
Nianduan moustache, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni à NDU à NZ à x à, which means to rub the moustache so frequently that several of them are broken. It is used to describe the mode of deliberation when writing poetry. From Nie Hai Hua
Notes on Idioms
Moustache: the moustache on the mouth.
The origin of Idioms
The 35th chapter of Zeng Pu's Nie Hai Hua: "because it's not easy to hear the tone of plucking a mustache in this study."
Idiom usage
As a predicate; used in thinking or writing
Break your moustache
Know the face but not the heart - zhī rén zhī miàn bù zhī xīn
Superior, strong, inferior and weak - guì zhuàng jiàn ruò
disclaim all achievements one has made - gōng chéng fú jū
He who goes with virtue prospers, but he who goes against virtue perishes - shùn dé zhě chāng,nì dé zhě wáng
Tiger crouching and dragon leaping - hǔ wò lóng tiào
let the words interfere with the sense - yǐ cí hài yì