It is difficult for an upright official to break housework ",from Volume 10 of Yu Shiming's Language by Feng Ming Menglong:" As the saying goes, it is difficult for an upright official to break housework ". It means that it is difficult for a fair official to judge the merits of a family dispute. Refers to things within the family, which are difficult for outsiders to figure out. Its connotation generally has three meanings:
(1) Other matters (cases) are easy to be judged by honest officials;
(2) It is difficult for an honest official to break his own housework, because he is a part of it;
(3) It is difficult for an honest official to judge other people's housework because it is difficult to judge according to its nature.