in ill health

in ill health

Worry about collecting firewood, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ǎ IX ī nzh ī y ō u, which means you can't collect firewood when you are ill. From Mencius Gongsun Chou Xia.

Idiom explanation

Salary collection: firewood.

The origin of Idioms

Mencius Gongsun Chou Xia: "in the past, there was a king's life, and there was a worry about collecting salaries, so it was impossible to build a dynasty."

Analysis of Idioms

Disease of collecting firewood

Idiom usage

A euphemism for illness. I want to go to the account to express my feelings for years. When I go to the Pujiu temple in Hezhong mansion, I suddenly get to know you. In Yuan Dynasty, Wang Shifu's the second volume of the romance of the Western chamber and the seventh and eighth chapter of dangkouzhi: "I can't serve you because I am worried about my salary in my late life." It is also called "the disease of collecting firewood" and "the trouble of collecting firewood". Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote in his ci Shen Zhi Zheng Shi Biao: "in the first dynasty, I prepared for the throne, but I was ashamed of stealing food; in my hometown, I mourned, and I was seriously trapped by the disease of collecting firewood." Chapter 37 of a dream of Red Mansions: "the leak has turned three times, still hovering under the Tongchuang threshold, but it was bullied by the wind and dew, resulting in the trouble of collecting salaries."