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It's a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Ru ò B ù sh è ngy ī, which means people are so thin that they can't even bear the weight of their clothes. It comes from Xunzi Feixiang.

The origin of Idioms

Xunzi Feixiang: "young master Ye is tall, small, short and barren. If you walk, you will not be able to wear his clothes."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attribute and object, with derogatory meaning, and refers to very weak. In the first volume of the history of Jin in the history of Ping Hua of the Five Dynasties, it is said that "when I was served by a recent cause, I was exposed to the wind and rain, and my illness was growing day by day. I was too weak to wear clothes, and I was getting worse and worse." In Yanmen collection written by Sadula in Yuan Dynasty, "the sideburns are like halberds; the weak body is too weak to wear clothes." Chapter 3 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty: when people see that although Daiyu is young, she is not vulgar in her speech, and although she is weak in appearance, she has a romantic attitude, so they know that she is deficient.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: strong and strong, strong and strong