create out of nothing

create out of nothing

A Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p í NGK à ngni à Z à o, which means to add falsehood without foundation. It comes from the supplement of Wanli yehuo · chieftain · inheritance of local officials.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: to invent or imagine out of thin air

Idiom usage

How does the heavenly daughter descend? I don't know what to call the heavenly granddaughter Zhinu? I don't dare to make it up. I read it from historical records. The first chapter of the romance of the Qing Dynasty by Cai Dongfan

The origin of Idioms

Shen De Fu of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the supplement to Wanli yehuo edition, chieftain and inheritance of local officials: "in modern times, most of the counterfeiters fabricated things out of thin air to earn money, and Li Xu, the military selection Secretary of the Ministry of war, was allowed to do so."