No salt, no light

No salt, no light

No salt, no light, no capital. It comes from the third volume of muddleheaded world by Wu Jianren in Qing Dynasty.

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[idiom]: no salt, no light [Pinyin]: W ú y á Nb ù Ji ě D à n

Source of allusion

Wu Jianren's "muddleheaded world" in the Qing Dynasty, Volume 3: "but there is no salt and no light, so we have to take some silver. It's a mat for Futai."

words whose meaning is similar

Don't want a child to be a wolf

Idiom information

Idiom explanation: metaphor can not do without capital. Idiom structure: subject predicate type: Modern Times