find fault with

find fault with

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ǐ g ò uqi ú B ā n, which means being too picky about other people's mistakes. It comes from the Yuben, the biography of Zhao Yi in the later Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Zhao Yizhuan in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "if you are good, you will get out of the skin; if you are evil, you will wash the dirt and seek the scar."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: pick a bone in an egg, find fault, have nothing to do, find fault

Antonym: magnanimous, reasonable

Idiom usage

Combined; predicate; derogatory