have little food to eat

have little food to eat

Chinese idiom, Pinyin sh í B ù Gu ǒ f ù, means not enough to eat. It describes a difficult life. It's from Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou.

Notes on Idioms

Fruit: full, full.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu's xiaoyaoyou: "those who are suitable for the wild and the boundless are still as good as they are."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as predicate and attribute; to describe difficult life. Example: Duan Chengshi's Youyang Zazu Nuogao notes in Tang Dynasty: "the person who recorded affairs with Liu in Hezhou was dismissed from office and lived in hezhoupang County in Dali. He ate a few people, especially he could eat meat. As the saying goes, he didn't taste good." Before liberation, the working people worked hard all the year round, but they still lived in poverty.