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Chu waist slender, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ǔ y ā oxi ā nx ì, meaning to describe the beauty of the waist, curve exquisite. It's from Chu CE, Warring States strategy.
Idiom usage
She has a delicate waist and a light palm. Reminiscence poems by Du Mu in Tang Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty wrote in the Warring States strategy Chu strategy: "in the past, the emperor Lingwang was good at small waist, and the Chu son was about to eat. He could stand up by virtue of it and rise by style."
slim
suffering from both poverty and sickness - pín bìng jiāo qīn
improve one 's virtue and refine one 's achievements - jìn dè xiū yè
a snipe and a clam locked in a fight - yù bàng xiāng wēi