Sticking to the skin and bone

Sticking to the skin and bone

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni á NP í zheg ǔ, meaning procrastination, not free and easy. It's from "Helin Yulu".

The origin of Idioms

The tenth volume of the great Sutra of the Song Dynasty (Luo Da Jing): this theory is common sense, but the heresy is sticking to the skin and bone.

Idiom usage

As object, attribute and adverbial, it refers to the rigidity of people's work. Example: Huang Tingjian's Zhongli postscript in Song Dynasty: "I know the rhyme and vulgarity of my works better, and I don't leave it in my writing, just like the skin and bone language of Zen."

Idiom story

It is said that during the Song Dynasty, Chao Wenyuan repeatedly asked Liu haichan how to live forever. Liu haichan said with a laugh: "how ever did a man die, but you are afraid to survive! But the dead, also in shape, do not perish with all, solid in also. This is common sense, but heresy is hard to say. "