attack by overt and covert means
The Chinese idiom, pronounced m í nqi à ng à NJI à n, refers to all kinds of open and hidden attacks and injuries. It's from Lu Xun's "San Xian Ji · correspondence".
The origin of Idioms
Lu Xun's "San Xian Ji · correspondence" said: "now there are many upright men and revolutionary writers who are committing the crime of revolution and non revolution
Idiom usage
In Ba Jin's "memory of the man who is the eldest brother", it is said that "after my grandfather died, the eldest brother became my goal because he was a grandson."
Chinese PinYin : míng qiāng àn jiàn
attack by overt and covert means
appoint upright and remove the crooked ones -- to replace the bad ones by good ones. jǔ zhí cuò wǎng