Scorched lips and dry lung

Scorched lips and dry lung

Jiao lip Gan Fei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ā och ú ng ā NF è I, which means to be worried and dry. It comes from shunmin, the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.

The origin of Idioms

According to the book of Lu's spring and Autumn Annals shunmin written by Lu Buwei in the Warring States period, "three years of hard work, scorched lips and dry lungs, close relatives and officials, and supporting the common people have been their heart."

Idiom usage

Used as predicate, attributive and adverbial; used in figurative sentences.