Sweep the pot and scrape the stove

Sweep the pot and scrape the stove

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s à Ogu à Gu à Z à o, which means to give everything. From Hong Shen's fragrant rice.

Idiom explanation

[idiom]: sweeping the pot and scraping the stove

[Pinyin]: s à Ogu à Gu à Z à o

Explanation: refers to devoting all of it.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: Scene 3 of Hong Shen's fragrant rice: "we've been sweeping the pot and scraping the kitchen. To be honest, we don't even have a dollar left at home."

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: sggz

Usage: used as object, attribute and adverbial; used in figurative sentences