pick a hole in

the breaking of the beams and rafters--a complete ruin of the state

have the breeze up

Free from vulgarity

Token granted by the Emperor

Pose as a person of high morals

Virtue and appearance

Dan lead a and B

put one's statecraft to full use

behaviour, speech, appearance, and needle-work and cookery

A common danger causes common action(be unanimous in their hatred against the enemy)

suit the medicine to the disease

fig. (of wealthy people) to lead a dissolute and extravagant life; lit. to trade a fur coat for wine (idiom)

Du's plot

brace up one while the other tumbles down

melon cutting

go in at one ear and out at the other

rack one's brains

a person of no note

retaliate(take revenge)