have not enough for food and clothing
Eat short and wear little, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du ǎ NCH ī sh ǎ ochu ā n, meaning food and clothing. From the storm.
The origin of Idioms
Zhou Libo's "storm" part II: "the poor get up early and greedy, hand does not leave live, adult slip generation, eat short, what do you say this is not life?"
Analysis of Idioms
Food and clothing
Idiom usage
It refers to poverty. We won't live such a short life any more.
have not enough for food and clothing
If you don't work hard when you are young, you will be sad when you are old - shào zhuàng bù nǔ lì,lǎo dà tú shāng bēi
let the eye travel over the great scenes and let fancy free - yóu mù chěng huái
congratulatory wishes for happiness , longevity and many posterities - huá fēng sān zhù
be unequaled in one 's generation - dú bù yī shí
bear hardship without complaint - rèn láo rèn yuàn