Snake and scorpion

Snake and scorpion

Snake and scorpion as the heart, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh é Xi ē w é IX ī n, meaning malicious. It's from Yuan Dynasty's Wu Mingshi's "Bao makeup box".

Idiom explanation

Scorpion: a poisonous insect of spiders. It's a vicious heart.

The origin of Idioms

The second fold of Yuan Wu Ming's "Bao makeup box" is: "it's a snake and a scorpion's heart. It's not so poisonous."