Face like dust
Face like dust, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is mi à NR ú Hu à t à, meaning face like dust. Describe extreme fear. It can also be described as morbid. From Dunhuang Bianwen Ji Bu Bianwen.
The origin of Idioms
In Dunhuang Bianwen Ji Bu Bianwen: "when you go back to the wall to see Ji Bu, your face looks like earth, and your eyebrows are frequent." Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty wrote strange tales of Liaozhai. The king said, "Zhou Zuo sent out a letter to Xie Chen, but the public didn't finish it. His face was like ashes."
Analysis of Idioms
Face like earth, face like Earth
Idiom usage
Standing in front of sun Zhenbang's corpse and looking at him with two straight eyes, this donkey Taijun looks like ashes and his heart is like bamboo. The 23rd chapter of Liu Liu's Fire King Kong
Chinese PinYin : miàn rú huī tǔ
Face like dust
go forward with great strength and vigour. hào hào dàng dàng
Late Chu Dynasty and early Qin Dynasty. mù chǔ cháo qín
lament to heaven and knock one 's head on earth. hū tiān kòu dì