横挑鼻子竖挑眼
héng​tiāo​bí​zi​shù​tiāo​yǎn

to nitpick

  • created sense approved 横挑鼻子竖挑眼/橫挑鼻子豎挑眼 · héng​tiāo​bí​zi​shù​tiāo​yǎn · to nitpick — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    横挑鼻子竖挑眼 / 橫挑鼻子豎挑眼

    héng​tiāo​bí​zi​shù​tiāo​yǎn

    to nitpick

    to find fault with everything; to be hypercritical or pick on something incessantly

    横 (literal) → 横/橫 · héng · horizontal 挑 (literal) → 挑 · tiāo · to nitpick 鼻子 (literal) → 鼻子 · bí​zi · nose 竖 (literal) → 竖/豎 · shù · vertical 挑眼 (literal) → 挑眼 · tiāo​yǎn · to find fault

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense