be emaciated with grief(āi huǐ jī lì)

be emaciated with grief

Mourning is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "Yihu ǐ J ī L ì", which means that in the old days, it was used to describe that in the death of his parents, he was so thin that he had only one bone left.

explain

It used to be said that in the bereavement of my parents, I was so thin that I was only a bone.

source

Chapter 12 of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty: "all the relatives have arrived to discuss setting up a son in the family's house, and then they will bury him in the funeral. "The young master Yu was very sad and did his best."

usage

To describe the grief of bereavement

Discrimination of words

Compound sentence idiom

Neutral idiom

Mourn for one's death

[antonym] sad but not sad

Now bereavement is not like that in ancient times

Chinese PinYin : āi huǐ jī lì