Kill the chicken and wipe the neck

Kill the chicken and wipe the neck

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ā J ī m ǒ B ó, which means to draw with hands on the neck. It describes the anxious and unthinkable look in my heart. From a dream of Red Mansions.

The idiom comes from the 21st chapter of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: "Jia Lian's face is yellow. Behind Sister Feng's body, he only looks at Ping'er's killing chicken and wiping his neck to make his eyes look and ask him to cover it."