The sound of birds and the heart of beasts
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni ǎ OSH ē ngsh ò UX ī n, which means that the speech is beautiful and the heart is sinister. It comes from the biography of Liu Tao in the book of the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the biography of Liu Tao in the book of the later Han Dynasty, it is said that "the private words of the four sides, the cloud horn, etc. were stolen into the capital, the imperial government was targeted, the bird's voice and the beast's heart resonated in private."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; as a person
The sound of birds and the heart of beasts
all the men in the boat turned to be enemies - zhōu zhōng dí guó
Rolling melons and flowing water - gǔn guā liú shuǐ
a man should take a wife and a woman should take a husband - nán hūn nǚ jià
Lift the tendons and peel the skin - zhuó jīn bō fū