A widower craves a Phoenix
Widowers yearn for the Phoenix is an idiom, pronounced Gu ā NY ú K ě f è ng, which means that a single man is eager to get a spouse. It comes from the third song of Madame Li by Li Shangyin of Tang Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Song of Madame Li written by Li Shangyin in Tang Dynasty (3): "pure and clear, with the fragrance of plain, widows and fish yearning for the real pearl house of Phoenix."
Idiom usage
It's not like me. It's hot all of a sudden. It's stolen all of a sudden. Xu Zichang, Ming Dynasty
Discrimination of words
Degree of common use: General emotional color: commendatory words idiom structure: subject predicate type generation time: ancient times
A widower craves a Phoenix
woman 's light and heavy make-up - dàn zhuāng nóng mǒ
to be in deep anxiety day seems like a year - shì rì rú nián
confused and unable to distinguish between male and female - mí lí pū shuò