Rubber nail(xiàng pí dìng zǐ)

Rubber nail

As a Chinese idiom, the phonetic alphabet is Xi à NGP í Dingzi. The self contradictory midnight, which means "soft nail", refers to rebuke or refuse in a subtle and obscure way. From the fourteenth of Mao Dun's midnight.

The origin of Idioms

Mao Dun's midnight 14: "the second time Tu Wei Yue heard that Wu Sun Fu was very sarcastic about him, he responded with a rubber nail."

Idiom usage

He had to give up when he hit a rubber nail.

Analysis of Idioms

Soft nail

Chinese PinYin : xiàng pí dìng zǐ