a carbuncle neglected becomes the bane of your life

a carbuncle neglected becomes the bane of your life

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ ngy ō ngy í Hu à n, which means connivance and cover up bad people and bad things, resulting in disaster. It comes from the biography of Feng Yan in the book of the later Han Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] the legacy of raising a tiger, endless future troubles, and the danger of raising a carbuncle

The origin of Idioms

Li Xian's annotation of Feng Yan's biography of the later Han Dynasty quoted Feng Yan's book of Ren Wu Da with his wife and younger brother: "nourishing carbuncle and growing gangrene is a natural disaster."

Idiom usage

Contraction; predicate, object, attribute; derogatory. I call it Yefu because of the fact that we have a false name of being rich and virtuous and that we have been defeated and broken. (notes of Yuewei thatched cottage by Ji Yun in Qing Dynasty)