make captious remarks
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ǔ Du ǎ NL ù NCH á ng, which means that you can still talk long and short. It's from you Ming.
The origin of Idioms
Han Cui yuan's Zuoyou Ming: "no one is short, no one is strong."
Idiom usage
It refers to gossiping.
Examples
At the beginning, I was strong in Liangshan, and I couldn't stand the gossip. The third part of Wumingshi's nine palaces and eight trigrams in Ming Dynasty
make captious remarks
A dog cannot spit Ivory out of its mouth - gǒu kǒu lǐ tǔ bù chū xiàng yá
a plot to gain time in order to complete defense - huǎn bīng zhī jì
Extremely vicious and ferocious - jí è qióng xiōng