Today ChineseHour will teach you a common Chinese proverb about eggs which means finding fault deliberately.

鸡蛋 里 挑 骨头 — 故意 找错

jīdàn li tiāo gǔtou — gùyì zhǎocuò.

Picking bones from eggs-finding fault deliberately.

—鸡蛋jīdàn, eggs

—挑tiāo, pick, search

—骨头gǔtou, bones

—故意gùyì, deliberately

—找错zhǎocuò, to find fault

There is impossibly any bones in eggs actually, right? This is a way to describe the type of person who is constantly searching to find faults in everything and anything, for it refers to someone who is trying to find something that doesn’t exist (after all, have you ever found a bone in an egg??). For example:

—我的老板老是鸡蛋里挑骨头，对我的工作不满意。

—Wǒ de lǎobǎn lǎoshì jīdàn li tiāogǔ，duì wǒde gōngzuò bù mǎnyì。

—My boss keeps picking bones from eggs over my work. He is always not satisfied with what I have done.