grind sword for a decade
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh í Ni á nm ó Ji à n, which means to describe years of hard training. From swordsman.
The origin of Idioms
In the poem "swordsman" written by Jia Dao of Tang Dynasty, "a sword has been sharpened for ten years, but the frost blade hasn't been tried. Today, the sword is shown to the emperor. Who has any injustice?"
Idiom usage
It's formal, predicate and commendatory. example ten years of sharpening the sword, Wuling knot guests, the tears of life are gone. A collection of self inscriptions by Zhu YIZUN in Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : shí nián mó jiàn
grind sword for a decade
each department acting on its own. fǎ chū duō mén
the footprints leading to a certain point and from these onwards the traces left behind. lái zōng qù lù
Water carries the boat, water capsizes the boat. shuǐ zé zài zhōu,shuǐ zé fù zhōu