suffer from both poverty and sickness

suffer from both poverty and sickness

Poverty and disease, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p í Nb ì ngji ā opॸ, which means poverty and disease together. From the book with Prime Minister Wang Jihai.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: poverty and disease, invasion of poverty and disease, attack of poverty and disease, hunger and cold

Antonym: eat warm clothes

The origin of Idioms

Chen Liang of the Song Dynasty wrote in his book with Prime Minister Wang Jihai: "since the beginning of the spring, poverty and disease have been fighting, and there has never been a good day."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as predicate, adverbial; describe the life situation is very difficult.

Examples

Because he died prematurely.

The enthusiastic and patriotic cultural people were not only forced to be poor and sick, but even their families were destroyed. Whose crime is this? (Chapter 3 of Guo Moruo's Hong Bo Qu)