Forget to sip the useless pillow
Forget to sip and waste pillow, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à ngchu à f è izh à n, which means not to eat and not to sleep. It comes from Huang Jiulang, strange tales from a lonely studio.
The origin of Idioms
According to Pu Songling's strange tales from a lonely studio, Huang Jiulang in the Qing Dynasty, "if you lose something in your living place, you forget to use your pillow, and you are becoming more and more emaciated."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing
Forget to sip the useless pillow
hovering between life and death - yī fó chū shì,èr fó shēng tiān
uphold fairness without favouring anyone - shǒu zhèng bù náo
Superior, strong, inferior and weak - guì zhuàng jiàn ruò
spit out a mouthful in the middle of eating and bind up one 's hair in the midst of a bath in order to see visitors - tǔ bǔ wò fà