make captious remarks
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ǔ Du ǎ NL ù NCH á ng, which means that you can still talk long and short. It's from you Ming.
The origin of Idioms
Han Cui yuan's Zuoyou Ming: "no one is short, no one is strong."
Idiom usage
It refers to gossiping.
Examples
At the beginning, I was strong in Liangshan, and I couldn't stand the gossip. The third part of Wumingshi's nine palaces and eight trigrams in Ming Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : shǔ duǎn lùn cháng
make captious remarks
drive a cart in ragged clothes to blaze a new trail. bì lù lán lǚ
choose the easy way for convenience. qǔ qiǎo tú biàn
be chained and thrown into prison. láng kāng rù yù