Seven broken and eight mended

Seven broken and eight mended

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī P ò B ā B ǔ, which means clothes are very old. It comes from the 73rd chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: dilapidated antonym: temporarily NEW

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 73 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "there comes an old man with white beard outside, wearing a patchy cotton padded robe, which is very narrow in shape."

Idiom usage

Combined; used as attributive and adverbial; derogatory; used in spoken English.