black gauze caps and red skirts

generous outside but jealous inside

feed oneself to a starving tiger

Forget the pride

honest talk and action

rectify others and forget oneself

thin, gaunt, stickly looking

Ruthlessness is the mark of a truly great man.(A real man lacks not in venom.)

No salt, no light

not to possess a speck of land

not to possess a speck of land

with no equal in the whole world(matchless)

indifferent(do not care one way or another)

cannot play pew(cannot punch one's way out of a paper bag)

only depend on oneself

there are no waves without wind(Where there is smoke , there is fire)

Singular things are always dear.

It is coincidence that makes a story.

when the nation is at stake but no people to save

Literary talents are generally ill-starred in their lives.