Tired tail red
Tired tail red, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ju à NW à ICH à s è, which means extreme hardship. It comes from poem Zhounan rufen.
Idiom explanation
It refers to the extreme of hardship.
The origin of Idioms
The language version of poem Zhounan rufen: "bream fish in the tail." Zhu Xi's biography: "Fu, red also.". The tail is red when the fish is tired. The tail of a Megalobrama is white, but now it's red. It's hard work. "
Tired tail red
Eating old things is like a stick in the neck - shí gǔ rú gěng
Zhonghe lost his boat, a pot of gold - zhōng hé shī zhō,yī hú qiān jīn
they have retired from the court to take their their meal - tuì shí zì gōng