To beat a chicken and scold a dog means to vent one's dissatisfaction with someone.

explanation: it is a metaphor for beating around the bush and swearing to vent dissatisfaction with someone.

source: Lu Xun's "Wandering Soap": "Why are you so angry today? Even when you eat, you beat chickens and scold dogs."

Grammar: Beating chickens and scolding dogs is the predicate and attribute; The same as "pointing at mulberry and cursing".

Example: He beats chickens and scolds dogs all day.

Synonym: refers to cursing mulberry.

degree of usage: common idioms.

word count: four-character idiom.

traditional: beat the dog and scold it.

phonetic notation: ㄉㄚˇㄐㄇㄚˋㄡˇ.

short spell: DJMG.

structure: combined idiom.

era: a contemporary idiom.

emotional color: derogatory idiom.

A similar word for beating a chicken and scolding a dog:

Synonymous: it refers to cursing mulberry.

pinyin: zhǐ sāng mà huái i.

Pointing at the mulberry tree and cursing the locust tree, it is a metaphor for cursing this person on the surface, but actually cursing that person.

The sixth time in Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua: "Every day, he refers to mulberry trees and scolds locust trees, and he praises them in every way."

near meaning: exploit the topic.

Interpretation: Make a fuss about something to express your real opinions or opinions, or to make remarks unrelated to it. It also means doing something else on the pretext of something.

The popular saying "Explaining the evidence and using the topic to draw attention to the jade": "Just using the topic to show our selfishness."