have little food to eat
Food is not enough to satisfy one's hunger, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í B ù ch ō NGJ ī, which means to describe hardship and poverty, barely making ends meet. It comes from Song Liu of the Southern Dynasty or Li Jin Xi Wang Si Zhao.
The origin of Idioms
Liu of the Southern Song Dynasty or lijinxi King's imperial edict said, "if you don't have a warm body, you can't eat enough to satisfy your hunger
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: lack of food, lack of appetite
Idiom usage
We don't want to live without food any more
Chinese PinYin : shí bù chōng jī
have little food to eat
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the gold of the south and the arrow of the east -- a good talent. nán jīn dōng jiàn
develop a new method of one 's own. dú pì xī jìng
hide one 's candle under a bushel. fēng máng bù lù