homicide by quackery
Mediocrity kills people, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ō ngy ī sh ā R é n, which means that a doctor with poor medical skills misuses drugs to kill people. It comes from the history of Song Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the history of the Song Dynasty, Shi Huo Zhi (Shi Huo Zhi), it is said that "if the imperial physician is asked to choose the right medicine to observe the pulse, that is to say, the county magistrate will give the medicine and judge the symptoms of the disease, so that the poor people will not be misled by the quack doctor and die young."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in medicine
Examples
The 68th chapter of journey to the west by Wu Chengen of Ming Dynasty: "I have a few grassroots prescriptions that can cure serious diseases. I can cure them by taking care of their emotions. Even if the doctor is killed, he will only ask a quack about the charge of murder, and he will not die. "
homicide by quackery
feel like old friends at the first meeting - yī miàn rú jiù
have a good idea of how things stand - xiōng zhōng yǒu shù
hardships of travel or a hard life in the open country - cān fēng yǐn lù
Take the cutting edge and drink the blood - dǎo fēng yǐn xuè
there were snakes and vipers creeping around among the dragons -- the high and low were mixed together - lóng shé hùn zá