timeworn(nián shēn rì jiǔ)

timeworn

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni á NSH ē NR ì Ji ǔ, which describes a long time. It comes from the story of the grey appendix written by Li Xingdao in Yuan Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan · Li Xingdao's the second discount of "the story of the gray appendix": "my mother received at least seven or eight children a day. I remember that when I was old."

Idiom usage

It is used as attributive and adverbial. Since I left Chang'an, some of my money has been exhausted. (Wu Chengen's journey to the West in Ming Dynasty, Chapter 56)

Chinese PinYin : nián shēn rì jiǔ