poor clothing and poor food
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è y ī f ē ISH í, which means poor food and clothing and describes simple life. From the book of Liang, preface to the biography of empress Zhang et al.
Idiom explanation
Bad clothes and poor food. To describe a simple life.
Idioms and allusions
The source of "preface to the biography of empress Zhang and others in the book of Liang Dynasty": "emperor Gaozu brought order out of chaos, deeply learned luxury and leisure, had bad clothes and poor food, and had to be thrifty first." to end up in bad clothes and bad food. [song · Sushi's Sima Wen Gong Xing Zhi]
Discrimination of words
[pinyin code]: eyfs [synonym]: ill clothes and poor food [usage]: predicate, attribute and object; to describe the hardships of life
Chinese PinYin : è yī fēi shí
poor clothing and poor food
have no place too ashamed to show one 's face. wú dì zì róng
be benumbed and unresponsive. bù zhī tòng yǎng
evoke memories of the past while living in the present. fǔ jīn tòng xī