No salt, no light
No salt, no light, no capital. It comes from the third volume of muddleheaded world by Wu Jianren in Qing Dynasty.
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[idiom]: no salt, no light [Pinyin]: W ú y á Nb ù Ji ě D à n
Source of allusion
Wu Jianren's "muddleheaded world" in the Qing Dynasty, Volume 3: "but there is no salt and no light, so we have to take some silver. It's a mat for Futai."
words whose meaning is similar
Don't want a child to be a wolf
Idiom information
Idiom explanation: metaphor can not do without capital. Idiom structure: subject predicate type: Modern Times
Chinese PinYin : wú yán bù jiě dàn
No salt, no light
fight among rivals for the throne. zhōng yuán zhú lù
take pity on the poor and the old. lián pín xī lǎo
burn sb . 's corpse and scatter the ashes to the winds. fén shī yáng huī