hoary-headed and toothless(tóu tóng chǐ huò)

hoary-headed and toothless

Toutongyahuo is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó ut ó ngch ǐ Hu ō, which means bald head and thin teeth; it describes the state of aging. From lecture explanation.

Idiom explanation

Tong: originally, it means that there is no vegetation in the mountain, which means that people are bald; Huo: gap.

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu's Jin Xue Jie in the Tang Dynasty: "what's the benefit of death when the head is young and the teeth are broken?"

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive to describe the state of aging.

Examples

After a few years of illness, the head was young and the teeth were broken; but suddenly, his mother's wife changed, and his body and spirit became more and more detached. The epitaph of Wei zi'an by Xie Zhangdi in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : tóu tóng chǐ huò