would cut clean through iron as though it were mud

would cut clean through iron as though it were mud

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Xu ē Ti ě R ú n í, which means an exaggerated description of the sharpness of a sword. It means that it is as easy for a sword to cut iron as mud. The blade is extremely sharp. From the romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: new hair in hair, blowing hair can be broken

The origin of Idioms

The 41st chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "that green sword is extremely sharp when it cuts iron like mud."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; as predicate and attribute; with commendatory meaning. example although this sword can't be said, it is as sharp as huama sword. (Yao xueyin's Li Zicheng, Vol.1, Chapter 5) Ming Wumingshi's "looking for a relative. Chapter 7": "the pure steel will be beaten; it will be refined for a long time; it will be cut without blood; it will be cut like mud."