Poor clothes and poor food

Poor clothes and poor food

My clothes and food is a Chinese word, and its pronunciation is B ì y ī L ì sh í. It comes from Xu Fu Zhuan written by Zeng Gong of Song Dynasty and describes the hardship of life.

Idiom explanation

Eat coarse food with broken clothes. It's a tough life.

The origin of Idioms

Zeng Gong's Xu Fu Zhuan in Song Dynasty said, "I'm poor, I'm poor, I can't afford food and clothing, or I can't support myself."

Discrimination of words

Example of idiom: Although he was not dead in Fang's family, he had little to live in. The preface to the 60th birthday of Xie's sister by Liu Dakui in the Qing Dynasty degree of common use: rare emotional color: commendatory words idiom structure: combined generation time: ancient times

Grammatical usage

As an object or attribute, it refers to hard life