only a skin complaint

only a skin complaint

Disease of scabies, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xu ǎ NJI è zh ī J í, which means a metaphor for unimportant small problems. It comes from the direct admonition of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.

Idiom explanation

Tinea scabies: two kinds of skin diseases.

The origin of Idioms

"Lu's spring and Autumn Annals, direct admonition:" Fu Qi's in Wu also, scabies disease also

Idiom usage

Used as an object; used in writing. Example: Guoyu · Wuyu: "Fu Qilu compares various diseases, scabies also." Su Shi of the Song Dynasty wrote that Li Chang, the Minister of the imperial examination department, begged to get rid of the imperial edict of Yanbian, saying, "instead of defending the border, I have already suffered from scabies. If I had been exhausted to serve the country, I would have been worried about my health." In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's Pei Du Huan Dai, there is a second discount: "although I am under Renlu Yan and between my eyebrows and eyelashes, I am not as good as a tool of fighting Shau or a disease of scabies." The 60th chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty: "Zhang Lu's transgression of the world is a disease of tinea and scabies; Liu Bei's entry into Sichuan is a serious disease of his heart." Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty's "Water Margin" 63 chapters: "scabies disease, how can we care about it!" Ming Wumingshi's "catch Peng Chong" two fold: "I look at Feng Yi, like Cao, a group of cats and mice, scabies, where he went." Xu Zhonglin's the sixty sixth chapter of the romance of Fengshen: "Jiang Wenhuan, the eastern Marquis, Hou Eshun, the southern Marquis, and the northern Marquis, chongheihu. These three roads are nothing but scabies." Chapter 82 of the chronicles of the states of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "today, Wang xingshiwan's master travels thousands of miles to fight for scabies and scabies. He forgets that the great poison is in his heart. He is afraid that Qi will not win, but the disaster has come."