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
a hundred mouths cannot explain it away - bǎi huì mò biàn