Unpaid wages

Unpaid wages

It is a Chinese idiom, w è if é nx ǐ x ī n in pinyin. It means to remove firewood before fire, which means to prevent fire. From Yu Shi Ming Yan.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan of Ming Dynasty Volume 39: "all the Privy Council officers are afraid of things. They only know that if they are eager to dig a well, they will not be paid?"

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used to prevent beforehand.

Examples

Do things must be prepared in advance, not paid.