hate with gnashing teeth(qiè chǐ tòng xīn)

hate with gnashing teeth

It's a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Qi è ch ǐ t ò NGX ī n, which means pain and sadness. It comes from the biography of assassins in historical records.

The origin of Idioms

"Shi Ji · assassin biography" says: "this minister's day and night incises his teeth and corrupts his heart." Yan CE 3, the Warring States policy, says, "this minister is always gnashing his teeth and corrupting his heart."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attributive, or adverbial; used of resentment. A man with a heart, Fang ~, would like to cut his heart and eat it. Thanks to him, he still tells people that he is pure hearted. A brief history of Chinese novels by Lu Xun

Chinese PinYin : qiè chǐ tòng xīn