The dog and the fowl do not hear(jī quǎn bù wén)

The dog and the fowl do not hear

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī Qu ǎ Nb ù w é n, which means to describe desolation. From the outlaws of the marsh.

The origin of Idioms

Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty wrote the 19th chapter of outlaws of the Marsh: "the common people have been maimed by thieves for a long time, and they have heard that soldiers are fighting. When they rush to the thoroughfare, there is no one smoking. Quietly, dogs and chickens don't hear, they want a drop of water, and there is no place to drink, so they ask for wine and food?"

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: desolate and uninhabited

Idiom usage

Used as a subject, an object, or an attribute; used in large families to refer to desolation

Idiom explanation

It's very desolate.

Chinese PinYin : jī quǎn bù wén