have nothing but the bare walls in one 's house

have nothing but the bare walls in one 's house

Shi Tu Si Bi is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is sh ì t ú s ì B ì, which means that there is nothing in the room. The metaphor is poverty. From: biography of Yang Gu in the book of Wei.

Idiom explanation

Explanation: the room is empty. The metaphor is poverty.

Idioms and allusions

Source: biography of Yang Gu in the book of Wei: "the residence is clean, and the family has no surplus wealth. On the day of death, the house is empty, and there is no place for mourning. The family members gather the coffin."

Discrimination of words

The family is destitute. It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe the poverty in the family