To break a wall and destroy a stone
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is pॸb ì Hu ǐ u ī, which means to damage beautiful things. It comes from the stele of hanlingshan Temple by Wen Pengju of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The stele of hanlingshan Temple written by Wen Pengju in the Northern Wei Dynasty: "the bronze horses gallop, the golden tigers bite, the nine babies burst up, and emerge at the same time every day. The characters are exhausted."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate, object, or attribute.
To break a wall and destroy a stone
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked - shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
the beam breaking and the rafter falling -- the country being in a stage of ruin - dòng xiǔ cuī bēng
just a few words or a short note - piàn yán zhǐ zì
run out of ammunition and food supplies - dàn jìn liáng jué