Hunger and cold

Hunger and cold

Hunger and cold, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī D ò ngji ā oqi ē, meaning hunger and cold together, describes no food, no clothing, living in extreme poverty. It's from Song Hongmai's Yi Jian Bing Zhi, the fish and meat Taoist.

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attribute and object to describe extreme poverty

Analysis of Idioms

Hunger and cold

The origin of Idioms

Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty wrote in Yi Jian Bing Zhi, a fish and meat Taoist: "if parents want to die, they put them in a corner of the room, hungry and frozen, but they have no choice

Idiom explanation

Hunger and cold came together. No food, no clothes, living in extreme poverty.