people starved to death are everywhere

people starved to death are everywhere

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è PI à om à nd à o, which means severe famine disaster, a large number of people died of hunger and cold. From Changyan profit and loss.

Idiom explanation

Death: people who starve to death. The road was full of bodies of people who had died of hunger. Describes the famine disaster is serious, a large number of people died of hunger and cold.

The origin of Idioms

Chang Yan, profit and loss, written by Zhong Changtong of Han Dynasty: "sit back and watch the vegetables of the soldiers, stand up and look at the full way of the starving dead. How can you do this for the king?"

Idiom usage

It refers to the starving dead

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym for hunger