eat next year's food(yín chī mǎo liáng)

eat next year's food

Yin Chi Mao Liang is a Chinese idiom, pronounced y í NCH ī m ǎ Oli á ng, which describes that one year ate the next year's food. Yinian ate maonian's grain. This is a metaphor for economic difficulties. If you can't make ends meet, you can only misappropriate the property that is currently in deficit or the income that hasn't been received in advance, regardless of the future. It's from "the case of the Dragon painting - borrowing clothes.".

The origin of Idioms

1. In Ming Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's "longtugongan · Jieyi" said, "Yi's wife was one after another, why Yinian had to eat maonian's grain; Yi's family was the last one, so it's not right to ask for tomorrow's food first." (2) the 15th chapter of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty: "even our master is living beyond his means. He is short before he is empty."

Lantern riddle

The rabbit invites the tiger

English explanation

Brief explanation

eatnextyear'sfood；anticipateone'sincome；drawone'spayinadvance；eatone'scornintheblade；

example sentence

Although credit card is becoming a more and more accepted way of payment in the financial industry, many people still have doubts and regard credit card as the main manifestation of "living beyond our means". On Monday, Putin condemned the United States as a "parasite" of the global economy, and called the dominant position of the US dollar a major part of the "living now, paying later" syndrome. Although credit card has become a more and more popular payment method in the financial industry, many people still have doubts and regard it as the main manifestation of the lifestyle of "living beyond our means". The Chinese people, as well as the people in other parts of Asia, have been living a frugal life within their means, which enables the Americans and Europeans to spend more than their means. people in China, and elsewhere in Asia, lively enough to enable people in the US and Europe beyond them.. "Over the past few years sliding beyond the west, which has its own part of the overdraft future," Columbia University's spring for Edmund Phelps said Indeed,ifthethaisandIndonesiansdidnotcomefrominherentlypolitesocieties,theywouldsaytotheUSandEurope:"thetimehascomeforyoutoadministerthesamebittermedicineyoupresc ribedtous:stoplivingbeyondyourmeans. "

Chinese PinYin : yín chī mǎo liáng