look old and clumsy

look old and clumsy

Aging, Chinese idiom, pronunciation is l à ot à IL ó ngzh à ng, which means that the action is not flexible. It's used to describe old age and infirmity. It comes from the gift to Xue Dai by Li Duan of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Li Duan, Tang Dynasty, wrote in "a gift to Xie Dai" that "the bell is like an old man when you meet the younger generation."

Analysis of Idioms

[example] Wu, the commander of an engineering battalion from to, went to the platform to greet him and reported that the situation in Jinzhou was chaotic and the train could not pass. Chapter 69 of Tao Juyin's history of the reign of the Northern Warlords

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as predicate, adverbial, attribute; for people, etc

Idiom explanation

1. The appearance of old age, poor health and mobility. It also refers to the appearance of being down and out and failing to succeed. ——Li Duan's "give thanks and wear" 2. It also refers to the wet appearance and the old appearance. Bend your back, lean on your staff, raise your head, and move slowly. Its shape is like the waist of a dragon and the ground of a bell.

Idiom story

In the Song Dynasty, Lu you was very ill when he was old and could not spend his old age quietly. At night, it rained heavily. Listening to the sound of the dusk rain, I lamented my life experience and experience, and wrote the poem "listening to the rain": "old age, disease is not flat, it is more worthy of the love of common things. The flute in the gauze cupboard is happy, and I listen to the sound of the rain