daily necessaries
Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ó uy á NJI à NGC à, which means cooking seasoning in general and refers to other added contents that are not originally available; it refers to trivial and vulgar. It's from 20 years of witnessing.
The origin of Idioms
The thirty second chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "Jing Yi wrote a letter to Hongfu about a Liang's incident, in which he always added some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar."
Idiom usage
As subject, object, attribute; of necessities of life. I think that if women are literate, they will be refined. They are not beautiful. They have a kind of elegance. They are not expected to be vicious. For the first time in Tian Yu Hua, he said that his book is the seasoning of the book, which is full of color and workmanship. ——A brief history of civilization
daily necessaries
act in undue confidence of one 's own ability and look down upon others - fù cái ào wù
The past is right and the present is wrong - gǔ shì jīng fēi
tell part of the truth but not all of it - cáng tóu lù wěi
acclaim as the acme or perfection - tàn guān zhǐ yǐ
ant holes may cause the collapse of a dyke - dī kuì yǐ kǒng