people of every description

people of every description

All kinds of people, idioms, as the object, attribute, means all kinds of people. It comes from the Tang Dynasty's Lu Zhi's "imperial edict of giving special consideration to the common people in the capital and eliminating ten county magistrates": "if the common people and all kinds of people are able to do benevolence and justice, they will be reduced. If they are able to lend money to the poor and live a large number of lives, the Government Secretary will have the deeds to play. I should give them official rank and levy corvee."

Idiom explanation

All kinds of people.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Zhi of the Tang Dynasty wrote the imperial edict of giving special consideration to the common people in the capital and eliminating the ten County decrees: "if the common people and all kinds of people are able to do benevolence and justice, they will be reduced. If they are able to lend money to the poor and live a large number of lives, they will be granted the rank of an official and the corvee will be levied."

Examples of Idioms

[example] Xu Dishan's the ethics of the streets: "this is a speech era, so all kinds of people can speak."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing

Discrimination of words

Related idioms: no evil, no evil, no evil, no evil