one 's beautiful teeth are as white as pearl buttons
The Chinese idiom, CH ǐ R ú Bi ā Nb è I in pinyin, is used to describe neat and white teeth. It comes from the Miscellaneous Poems of Jihai.
The origin of Idioms
The fifth two of Gong Zizhen's Jihai Miscellaneous Poems in the Qing Dynasty: "the teeth are like the east of the Han Dynasty, and they don't learn to speak to each other.". The roof tiles are startling, and the Danhao circle is full of dew. "
Idiom usage
The teeth are neat and white.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: teeth like a shell, teeth like a shell
Chinese PinYin : chǐ rú biān bèi
one 's beautiful teeth are as white as pearl buttons
Fish in the water and birds in the water. yú kuì niǎo lí
There is a gap between the two. qí jì guò xì
catch the time and seize the right moment. chéng shí chéng shì