have not enough for food and clothing(duǎn chī shǎo chuān)

have not enough for food and clothing

Eat short and wear little, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du ǎ NCH ī sh ǎ ochu ā n, meaning food and clothing. From the storm.

The origin of Idioms

Zhou Libo's "storm" part II: "the poor get up early and greedy, hand does not leave live, adult slip generation, eat short, what do you say this is not life?"

Analysis of Idioms

Food and clothing

Idiom usage

It refers to poverty. We won't live such a short life any more.

Chinese PinYin : duǎn chī shǎo chuān