make up deficiency by funds elsewhere
In Chinese, Pinyin is y í D ō ngji ù x ī, which means to move one another. It means to deal with things for a while, not for a long time. It comes from the book on Pei Yanling's traitors written by Lu Zhi of Tang Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Lu Zhi's book on Pei Yanling's traitors and beetles in Tang Dynasty: "if you move the east to the west, it will be the continuation of the lesson. If we choose this to suit that, then we can call it "redundancy."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: moving the east to make up the West
Idiom usage
To deal with temporarily
Idiom explanation
Move each other. The metaphor is to deal with things temporarily, not for a long time.
Chinese PinYin : yí dōng jiù xī
make up deficiency by funds elsewhere
be servile to one 's superiors and tyrannical to one 's subordinates. chǎn shàng jiāo xià
the dragon 's liver and the phoenix 's marrow. lóng gān fèng suǐ