Girth reduction
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à Iji à NY à ow é I, which means to describe illness, worry and loss. It comes from the biography of Prince Zhaoming in the book of Liang.
The origin of Idioms
According to the book of Liang, the biography of Prince Zhaoming: "the body is strong and the girth is ten, and the girth is reduced by more than half." It is also called "belt and fence reduction".
Idiom usage
It is used as object and attribute to describe people's illness and sorrow. example Song Xin Qiji's "Magnolia flower slow" CI: "an de wheel four corners, can't bear to reduce waist circumference." In the poem Shangqiu written by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "when you are lazy and slow, you can see that when you are in trouble, you can reduce the encirclement."
Girth reduction
turn against another in mutual recrimination - fǎn chún xiāng jī
try to shorten the neck of a crane and lengthen that of an owl -- to go against nature - duan he xu fu
The accounts are exact to the penny. - zī zhū bù shuǎng
the lively and vigorous movement of penmanship -- fine calligraphy - luán xiáng fèng zhù