To make a mess of
Broken soup, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ò n à sh ū g ē ng, meaning broken clothes vegetarian, describes simple life. It comes from Shen De Fu of Ming Dynasty.
Idiom explanation
It's vegetarian in rags. To describe a simple life.
The origin of Idioms
In Shen De Fu's yehuo Bian · Li Bu · scholar bureaucrat's idiosyncrasy in Ming Dynasty, "in Jiajing period, Yang Yongxiu's clothes were very poor and clean; at the same time, Jingchuan in Tang Dynasty was very dirty."
Idiom usage
To break the soup as an object or attribute; used in daily life.
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: luxury.
To make a mess of
have a heart-to-heart talk after a long separation - fēng yǔ duì chuáng
political and military achievements - wén zhì wǔ lì
as like as an apple is to an oyster - jié rán bù tóng
be so frightened that one 's galls burst - xīn jīng dǎn liè