driven by poverty to seek relief

driven by poverty to seek relief

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Qi ó ngni ǎ or ù Hu á I, which means to refer to a difficult situation and turn to others. It comes from the biography of Bing yuan in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Idiom explanation

Poor bird: embarrassed bird; bosom: embrace.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Bing yuan in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi said, "when the government is in a dilemma, go to the yuan." Pei Songzhi quoted the spring and Autumn Annals of the Wei family in his annotation: "the political investment originally said:" poor birds are in my arms. " The original saying: "An Zhi Si Huai can enter evil?"

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; as object; with derogatory meaning. Example poor birds in my heart, benevolent people's sympathy, the situation of death to me, should abandon it! (Yan Zhitui's family precepts save trouble in the Northern Qi Dynasty)