breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening -- said of one who has nothing to do but eating

breakfast in the morning and dinner in the evening -- said of one who has nothing to do but eating

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is zh oy ōī NGX ī s ū n, which means that the talent is sparse and the strength is weak, and there is nothing to do except eat. It comes from the ode to the thatched cottage of houdongshan.

The origin of Idioms

Li Dongyang's Ode to the thatched cottage of houdongshan in the Ming Dynasty said, "we are very close to each other. We can see the mountain without poverty, and the sea without extreme source."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in self modesty.