there is internal strife afoot
It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is x ì NF ā Xi ā oqi á ng, which means to refer to an incident or disaster happening inside. It comes from Fu Xiezhuan.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: misfortune rises, misfortune comes, misfortune rises
The origin of Idioms
In Fu Xiezhuan, the book of the later Han Dynasty: "today, Zhang Jiao started in Zhao and Wei dynasties, and Huang Jin started in Liuzhou. This is all a quarrel, and the disaster extends all over the world
Idiom usage
It refers to civil strife. The dagger can stop the fear of disaster. It can be used to fight against the wall. It is seven feet in the air and offers a reward for thousands of gold. It can be used for sour nose. Biography of Wang Hong in northern history
there is internal strife afoot
exclude the difficulty and anxiety - pái yōu jiě nán
Hold one's grudge and shed one's shame - bào yuàn xuě chǐ
unable to get one 's wrongs redressed - yuān chén hǎi dǐ
Better be a chicken than a cow - nìng wéi jī kǒu,wú wéi niú hòu