eat when hungry and drink when thirsty
Hunger for food and drink, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī C ā NK ě y ǐ n, meaning to eat when hungry and drink when thirsty. Describe life as necessary. From the five Lantern Festival.
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: eat and drink
The origin of Idioms
Volume 16 of the five Lantern Festival yuan written by Shi Puji of the Song Dynasty: "it's too much hype, and it's like hunger and drink."
Idiom usage
It's necessary to eat and drink. It's not necessary to live at night and walk at dawn. The story of Yang Wen
eat when hungry and drink when thirsty
People are desperate for a living - rén jí jì shēng
Stealing chicken does not eat rice - tōu jī bù zhe shí bǎ mǐ
have experienced years of wind and frost - bǎo jīng fēng shuāng