Liver of lice

Liver of lice

Lice shank and liver, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ī J ì NGJ ī g ā n, which means lice's leg, lice's liver. As an object or attribute; of small things. From Xiao Yan Fu.

Idiom explanation

The leg of a louse, the liver of a worm. It's a metaphor for something very small.

The origin of Idioms

Song Yu's xiaoyanfu in the Warring States States States States States that "cooking lice shins, cutting liver, meeting nine ethnic groups and eating together, is still better than killing others."