Cover up

Cover up

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is zh ē Qi á NY ǎ NH ò u, which means hiding one's head and showing one's tail when speaking. From the book of Daye.

The origin of Idioms

The fourth part of "answer ye Zhengzheng book" written by Zhu Xi of Song Dynasty: "we should pay attention to the end, open our eyes to see, open our mouth to speak, clearly choose, and directly judge. We don't have to cover up the front and cover up the back like this. It's not too fast to be a bride in three days."

Idiom usage

As an object, attribute, adverbial; used in speech.