have no appetite

have no appetite

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch á f à NW ú x à n, which means no heart to drink tea and eat. To describe depression. From a dream of Red Mansions.

The origin of Idioms

The fourteenth chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "Sister Feng is so busy that she has no appetite for food and tea and can't sit still."

Idiom usage

Chapter 48 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty: "after listening to it, Xiangling happily took back the poem and thought hard to write two sentences. She was reluctant to give up Du's poem and read two more poems. I'm so careless, I can't settle down. " In the seventh chapter of Cao Xueqin's dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty, "Si Qi is in a trance with a ghost in his heart Chapter 23 of Li Baojia's "the appearance of Officialdom" in Qing Dynasty: since he Tai received these edicts, he has no heart to eat and drink, and has no way to go. He doesn't know what to do. After listening to the words from magistrate Xiao, why don't he care. Ask the magistrate Xiao in detail. Magistrate Xiao had to read Chen Wuyin's words and Zhou Zhongtang's letter. When he Du heard this, he was particularly thrilled. Chapter 44 of Li Baojia's Officialdom: seeing that a part of the ceremony was about to be taken away, he was even more impatient and restless.