cry from hunger and cold

cry from hunger and cold

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t í J ī h á oh á n, which means crying because of hunger and cold. It describes a miserable life of starvation and cold. From Jin Xue Jie.

Idiom explanation

Cry: cry; call: cry.

The origin of Idioms

Tang Hanyu's Jin Xue Jie: warm in winter but cold in children, abundant in years but hungry in wife.

Idiom usage

People are hungry and cold. When you are old, you are hungry. ——Before liberation, the working people were struggling on the death line every day, crying hunger and suffering. The people in the slums live a miserable life.