I'm hungry

I'm hungry

B à f à NJI à OJ à: compact idiom. It's a metaphor to talk about hunger with rice. It comes from Su Shi's two poems in reply to Yi Zhong Tui Guan in Song Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Idiom: hunger with rice idiom pronunciation: B à f à NJI à OJ à idiom explanation: hunger with rice, metaphor superfluous.

Discrimination of words

Grammatical usage: predicate; metaphor: superfluous; idiom structure: contractive; synonym: superfluous

source

Song Sushi's answer to Cheng Yizhong's two poems: "it's just a piece of high prose. It's like crying out for food and laughing for thousands of miles."

Examples

He is used to playing the game of "eat to eat".