cannot meet the needs of the people(sēng duō zhōu shǎo)

cannot meet the needs of the people

"Not enough to be able to eat more than one" is an idiom, which means that there are too many people and too few things to be distributed.

interpretation

There are many monks, but they eat little porridge

source

The 62nd chapter of the romance of awakening the world written by the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty: "the banquet of the master is visible. If you want another one, you will have more monks and less porridge, and your husband will not have enough to eat."

Make sentences

This cake is too small, and there are so many people. It's a bit too many! The cattle are thin and bony, and they don't have much meat on them. For more than 50 hungry wolves, the competition is fierce. ——(from the wolf king's dream by Shen Shixi)

grammar

It is used as predicate, attributive and clause. It has a derogatory meaning and refers to overstaffing.

Chinese PinYin : sēng duō zhōu shǎo