Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「吹毛索疵」 and its explanation.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「吹毛索疵」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Blow away the hair on the skin to find the scar. A metaphor for deliberately picking on other people’s shortcomings and looking for faults.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chuī máo suǒ cī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui1 mou1/mou4 sok3 chi1
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