People are desperate for a living
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is R é NJ í J ì sh ē ng, which means that when a person is in a desperate situation, he will have a stratagem. It comes from xingshihengyan, 15 Guan Xiyan Chengqiao disaster.
The origin of Idioms
"Xingshihengyan · shi5guan Xiyan Chengqiao disaster" says: "the man was in a hurry, but he didn't get out of trouble, but he saw Minghuang's chopping axe, which was at hand. He was also extremely resourceful. He was chucked up by him, and his axe hit the face of officer Liu."
Analysis of Idioms
People are in a hurry to make ends meet
Idiom usage
To act as a predicate, object, or attribute
People are desperate for a living
have no contact with each other - shuǐ huǒ wú jiāo
The oil is dry and the fire is exhausted - yóu gān huǒ jìn
know yourself as well as the enemy - zhī jǐ zhī bǐ