Dust and chaff
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch é ng ò UB ǐ K ā ng, which means to refer to trivial and useless things. It's from Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou.
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: a pillar
The origin of Idioms
"Zhuangzi xiaoyaoyou" says, "it is the dust and chaff that casts Yao and shun from pottery."
Idiom usage
To use a metaphor for something humble and useless. For those who are not able to cast Yao and Shun in the world, they know that it is not a good way to educate people by using books to draw history. Moreover, if saints do not die, they are afraid of evil. (Zhang Binglin's book with Wu junsui)
Chinese PinYin : chén gòu bǐ kāng
Dust and chaff
feel very depressed at the prospect. chù jǐng shāng qíng
extraordinary as if done by the spirits. shén gōng guǐ fǔ
rack one 's brains for ingenious devices. qiǎo zuò míng mù