Mucilaginous bone

Mucilaginous bone

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Ni á NP í D à Ig à, which means procrastination, not free and easy. The source is Zhongli Bawei.

The origin of Idioms

Huang Tingjian of Song Dynasty wrote Zhong Li Ba Wei: "I know more about the rhyme and vulgarity of my works, and I don't leave it in my writing, just like the skin and bone language of Zen."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute, it refers to a person's rigid handling of affairs

Examples

But word by word, the work of carving is antithetical, while innocence and interest can not be compared with Tao. Those who are high lose their shadow, while those who are low sit on the sticky skin and bones. Lu Tang Shi Hua by Li Dongyang in Ming Dynasty