Idle words and cold words

Idle words and cold words

The Pinyin is Xi á NY á NL ě ngy ǔ, meaning groundless sarcasm. It comes from the collection of Analects of Confucius by Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty.

Idiom usage

As an object, attribute, etc

Examples

Last year, Chongyang met his fourth aunt and Aunt Chen in my house. They quarreled too much. After listening to some gossips, they were very unhappy when they came back home, so they took care of their illness and stopped coming to my house.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: idle talk

The origin of Idioms

Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty wrote in the collection of Analects of Confucius · Zi Zhang Wen Ming Zhang: "if you speak suddenly, you can't enter him. You have to be idle and sneer. If you drop it there, you can't feel it when you preach."

Idiom explanation

Groundless sarcasm.