The road is broken and the people are few
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ù Du à NR é nx ī, which means that the road is cut off and there are few pedestrians. To describe a disaster so serious that there are no pedestrians on the road. From the five Lantern Festival.
The origin of Idioms
Volume 19 of five Lantern Festival yuan by Shi Puji of Song Dynasty: "it's always like this. There are few people on the way."
Analysis of Idioms
There are few people on the road
Idiom usage
For example, when a tiger is in power, the road is broken and the people are few, there will be days when the flesh and skin will be eaten. The tenth chapter of the light on the wrong road by Li Lvyuan in Qing Dynasty
The road is broken and the people are few
to open or find a new path or snap course - lìng pì xī jìng