Scorched lips and dry lung
Jiao lip Gan Fei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ā och ú ng ā NF è I, which means to be worried and dry. It comes from shunmin, the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.
The origin of Idioms
According to the book of Lu's spring and Autumn Annals shunmin written by Lu Buwei in the Warring States period, "three years of hard work, scorched lips and dry lungs, close relatives and officials, and supporting the common people have been their heart."
Idiom usage
Used as predicate, attributive and adverbial; used in figurative sentences.
Chinese PinYin : jiāo chún gān fèi
Scorched lips and dry lung
recover one 's original simplicity. fǎn pú guī zhēn
See the beginning and know the end. dǔ shǐ zhī zhōng
A slow sparrow should make an early start.. bèn niǎo xiān fēi