crudely made
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ū zh ì L à NZ à o, which means to write articles or do things carelessly, only for quantity, regardless of quality. From Er Xin Ji: good at translating correspondence.
Notes on Idioms
Excessive: excessive, without restraint.
The origin of Idioms
Lu Xun's "Er Xin Ji · correspondence good at translation" said: "the current translation is not the work of this group, or the speculation of some booksellers."
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate, object and attributive. It has a derogatory meaning and is used in work. Example Lu Xun's lacy Literature: Criticism of merchants: "if you don't live by selling articles, you don't need to make them rough." in Lev Tolstoy by Zweig: "the cottage was built by a rural carpenter, not by a Greek craftsman." Fan Wenlan's general history of China, Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 2: "the so-called love of work means no matter how bad the quality is.".
Chinese PinYin : cū zhì làn zào
crudely made
close and intimate friendship. jīn shí zhī jiāo
How to kill the cobra for the snake. wéi huǐ fú cuī,wéi shé ruò hé
point to a hill and talk about grindstone -- make concealed reference to something. zhǐ shān mài mò