toil for a living in one 's old age
The old silkworm makes cocoon, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ǎ OC á nzu ò Ji ǎ n, which means that the old silkworm spins silk to make cocoon and wraps himself in it, which means that he binds himself. From Shizhi.
The origin of Idioms
Song Sushi's Shizhi: "when will the old silkworm cocoon come off? It's a dream to be empty. "
Idiom usage
As an object; of self-restraint. I'm an old cocoon - I hurt myself.
Chinese PinYin : lǎo cán zuò jiǎn
toil for a living in one 's old age
Clever words and clumsy reasoning. cí qiǎo lǐ zhuō
be lithe and yet powerfully built. hǔ tǐ xióng yāo