Looking for flaws

Looking for flaws

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ú nxi á s ì x ì, which means to find other people's shortcomings and see if there is any room to drill. Stand by for a quarrel. It comes from the book of pumila on Gong.

Idiom explanation

Looking for: looking for; flaw: the spot on the jade, a metaphor for shortcomings; he: observation, gap: gap, opportunity. Look for other people's shortcomings and see if there is room for them. Stand by for a quarrel.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Xun's book of two places 49: "the students of this school once opposed the headmaster, but after it subsided, they were often indignant. Every time they searched for flaws, they were in trouble with the clerks."