so poor as to have no room to stick an awl on(pín wú zhì zhuī)

so poor as to have no room to stick an awl on

In Chinese, Pinyin is p í NW ú zh ì Zhu ī, which means that there is no place as small as an awl. It is the same as "poverty without foundation". It comes from Zhuangzi's stealing Zhi.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: poverty without a cone; antonym: rich

The origin of Idioms

Zhuangzi's stealing Zhi: "Yao and Shun have the world, and their descendants have no place."

Idioms and allusions

Zhuangzi Jishi Volume 9 (miscellaneous articles · stealing plantations) from 1994 to 1994, and I heard that those who have a good face and reputation are also good at reciting and destroying. Now the hill tells me that the people in the big city want to regulate me for profit, but they want to keep the people and animals, and they can live in peace for a long time! There is no greater city than the world. Yao and Shun had the world, and their descendants had no place to live in. Tang Wu was the son of heaven, but later generations died out? The general plan of Xunzi · Fei Shier Zi Pian ~ 00 ~ Ruofu is to unify words and deeds, and to unite the heroes in the world. He tells them that the great ancient, the teaching and the obedience, the abstruse and the noble king's articles, the Buddha's common customs, the six Sayers can't enter, and the twelve scholars can't kiss. There is no place to be famous, but princes can't compete with them. In the position of a doctor, a monarch can't be an animal alone, and a country can't be tolerated alone. It's better to be famous than princes. They are not willing to be ministers, and they are not allowed to be saints. So is Zhongni Zigong. In a world, all things are rich, which can support the people and benefit the world at the same time. All the people who have access to the world are obedient to the law. The six Sayers stand and rest, and the twelve sons move and change, so the sage is the one who has the right to be the emperor of Shun and Yu. (Volume 24 of the book of the Han Dynasty, Part 1 of the records of food and goods) ～ 37 ～ in ancient times, the tax revenue of the people was nothing more than one, and they wanted to change things together; the tax revenue of the people was no more than three days, and they had enough power to change things. The people's wealth is enough to provide for the aged, to fulfill filial piety, to pay taxes on matters, and to be loved by their wives. In Qin Dynasty, it was not the case. Shang Yang's method was used to change the emperor's system. In addition to the minefields, the people had to sell and buy them. The rich had thousands of acres of farmland, while the poor had to live in a poor place.

Idiom usage

He is very poor. In the Song Dynasty, Chen Liang's on drinking ancient books, sang Weihan said, "in the past, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty tried to start his own business, advocated justice in a rash way, and had no place to live." The fourth poem of Xue Dongpo's emigration, written by Jin and Yuan Haowen, is: "it's more than enough to set a good cone, and I will punish and create it all my life." In Tang Dynasty, Wei Yingwu wrote a poem in reply to an old friend '

Chinese PinYin : pín wú zhì zhuī