slight defect of little importance
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi ā NJI è zh ī J í, which means to describe a minor problem that you don't have to care about. It's from Yuanchen, a record of Ming Yi waiting to visit.
The origin of Idioms
Huang Zongxi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the records of Ming Yi waiting to visit Yuanchen: "if there is no relationship between the survival and death of the country, there will be labor disturbance in all directions, and the people's livelihood will be haggard. Although there are sincere officials, they also think that there is a delicate disease."
Analysis of Idioms
A disease of tinea and scabies
Idiom usage
Used as a subject or object; used in writing.
slight defect of little importance
iron walls and brass partitions - tiě bì tóng qiáng
a dried up tree comes to life again - kū shù shēng huā
find it hard to vindicate oneself - yǒu kǒu nán fēn
Say all you know and say all you can - zhī wú bù yán,yán wú bù jìn
return to original purity and simplicity - guī zhēn fǎn pǔ
the sight of familiar objects fills one with infinite melancholy - dǔ wù shāng qíng