new clothes and delicious food -- extravagant living(xiān yī měi shí)

new clothes and delicious food -- extravagant living

Fresh clothes and delicious food, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi ā NY ī m ě ISH í, which means to wear gorgeous clothes and eat delicious food; it describes affluent life. It's from a warning to the world.

Idiom explanation

Fresh: brilliant.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty's the general story of the world, Vol.17: "de said that at this time, although he borrowed the monk's room, books were full of cases, fresh clothes and delicious food, it did not seem to be earlier."

Idiom usage

It is used as subject, object and attribute to describe the well-off life.

Examples

It is often thought that white people are all preaching the truth of Jesus or going abroad. They eat delicious food and dress well. When they are not happy, they kick people with their shoes. End of qijieting's essays written in the middle of the night by Lu Xun

Chinese PinYin : xiān yī měi shí