Sweep the pot and scrape the stove
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à Ogu à Gu à Z à o, which means to give everything. From Hong Shen's fragrant rice.
Idiom explanation
[idiom]: sweeping the pot and scraping the stove
[Pinyin]: s à Ogu à Gu à Z à o
Explanation: refers to devoting all of it.
Idioms and allusions
[source]: Scene 3 of Hong Shen's fragrant rice: "we've been sweeping the pot and scraping the kitchen. To be honest, we don't even have a dollar left at home."
Discrimination of words
[pinyin code]: sggz
Usage: used as object, attribute and adverbial; used in figurative sentences
Chinese PinYin : sǎo guō guā zào
Sweep the pot and scrape the stove
nice young lady is like beautiful peach and plum blossoms. yāo táo nóng lǐ
reading by the light of fireflies. náng yíng zhào shū