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Forget to sip the useless pillow

Time: 2022-01-31 06:33:36 Author: ChinaWiki.net

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


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