sell family properties to relieve the distress of people
Destroy: destroy, destroy; relieve: ease, relieve. Donate all the family property to help the country alleviate its difficulties.
Idiom explanation
Destroy: destroy, destroy; relieve: ease, relieve. Donate all the family property to help the country alleviate its difficulties.
Idioms and allusions
In Zuozhuan zhuanggong's thirty years, it is said that "Dou Gu was the commander of Tu and destroyed his family to relieve the state of Chu."
Discrimination of words
Examples
Qian Qianyi of the Qing Dynasty wrote that "when a husband destroys his family and saves his country, when a minister has something to do, when he is in a hurry, he gives up his family, and when he is in a hurry, he is precious to a gentleman."
words whose meaning is similar
sell family properties to relieve the distress of people
English translation
offerallonehastohelpincharity
Idiom information
The idiom explains: donates all the family property, helps the country to alleviate the difficulty. It's the same as "destroying a family to relieve difficulties.". Common degree: general emotion color: commendatory words grammar usage: as predicate, object; refers to selflessness idiom structure: combined generation time: Modern
sell family properties to relieve the distress of people
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