do evil all kinds of evils

do evil all kinds of evils

Do evil, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w é if ē Izu ò D ǎ I, meaning to do all kinds of bad things. From Liu Yi's biography.

The origin of Idioms

Shang Zhongxian of Yuan Dynasty wrote in Liu Yi's biography: "I'll take it up and swallow it in my stomach. I can see that I still have the ability to do evil."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Chapter 57 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: I said good things, but I told you to be careful. I didn't ask you to do evil. Chapter 14 of Li Baojia's the appearance of officialdom in Qing Dynasty: according to my brother, the bandits must have heard the soldiers coming, so they fled together. They were always in the four sides of the mountain. When the soldiers left, they still wanted to do evil. If you cut grass without removing roots, it will sprout again in spring. Brother here, determined not to be able to raise carbuncle cause trouble, must go to root out. Nanting Ting Chang of Qing Dynasty: at the age of 20, he stopped studying, followed Bi Zhiben and ran out to do evil. People who find "magic bullets": they commit crimes in the human body, causing a large number of deaths. They are honest and polite, and dare not do evil even if they are hungry. (Xinhua idiom dictionary)