fall on evil days

fall on evil days

Poverty, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ó NGK ù NLI á OD ǎ o, which means to live in poverty and be frustrated. From climbing high.

Notes on Idioms

Poor: poor, difficult; down and out: frustrated.

The origin of Idioms

Du Fu's poem "climbing high" in the Tang Dynasty: "it's hard and bitter to hate the numerous frost temples, and it's down and out to stop the turbid wine cup."

Analysis of Idioms

Poor and down

Idiom usage

It refers to the frustration in life. Zhou Erfu's a morning in Shanghai: "Zhu Yannian's attitude when he came home was completely different from that when he was at Fuyou pharmacy. He was sitting dejectedly in the single sofa in his bedroom, with a horse face and no smile. He seemed to be too poor to support any more." Yu Qiuyu's letter: he studied in a private school. When he was old, he went out to rush to the dock and hit the wall several times. He was poor and had no life, so he came back to be a letter. After the destruction of Fangxian County, some poor and helpless scholars joined his volunteer army. (Yao xueyin, Li Zicheng, Vol.2, Chapter 23)