friendless and penniless(líng dīng gū kǔ)

friendless and penniless

Lingdingguku, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l í NGD ī NGG ū K ǔ, which means lonely and helpless. From the petition.

The origin of Idioms

In Li Mi's Chen Qing Biao of Jin Dynasty: "I have few ministers and many diseases, but I can't be nine years old. As for the establishment, it's a lonely life. "

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: lonely and lonely antonym: out of the double into the pair

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute; refers to helpless. He is lonely and miserable. The second scene of Beijing Opera "the legend of the White Snake" says: "I'm lonely and lonely. Although my elder sister feels pity for me, she always depends on others and says" get married. " After his wife died, his children did not support him, so he had to live alone in the old house.

Idiom story

After the unification of the whole country, Emperor Wu of Jin promoted "governing the world with filial piety", advocating filial piety to parents and respect for the elderly. He wanted to use the Western Shu minister Lang Li Mi, so he issued an imperial edict to appoint Li Mi as a doctor. Li mi didn't want to be an official, so he wrote a petition to Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, saying that his grandmother was lonely and lonely, and would come out to be an official after waiting on her.

Chinese PinYin : líng dīng gū kǔ