scant oneself in food and clothes
Frugal, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji é y ī Su ō sh í, meaning to save food and clothing. It's about frugality. It's from the biography of loan colonization in historical records.
The origin of Idioms
According to the biography of loan colonization in historical records, "he can eat thin, endure lust, and save clothes."
Idiom usage
In Lu Xun's letters to Zhao Jiabi: "originally, no matter how frugal you are, you should buy things related to your own business."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: Food and clothing, hard work and plain living [antonym]: extravagance, extravagance and extravagance
scant oneself in food and clothes
If you don't work hard when you are young, you will be sad when you are old - shào zhuàng bù nǔ lì,lǎo dà tú shāng bēi
To cover one's eyes and eyebrows - shān yǎn pū méi