A coat with a rope
PI Qiu Dai Suo, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ī Qi ú D à ISU ǒ, which means to describe rough clothes. It's from new preface: miscellaneous affairs 5.
The origin of Idioms
In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang wrote in his new preface miscellaneous affairs 5: "in the past, Mr. Chu Qiu was seventy years old, dressed in fur and rope, and went to see Mr. mengchang, but he could not move forward."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used of the poor.
A coat with a rope
take pleasure in other people's misfortune - xìng zāi lè huò
spiritual friendship between a noble and a commoner - wàng xíng zhī qì
one 's beauty was such as to overthrow cities and ruin states - qīng guó qīng chéng