attend to public duties without drawing a penny from the state

attend to public duties without drawing a penny from the state

As a Chinese idiom, Xi ā of ù C ó NGG ō ng in pinyin means to work at home hungry. It is said that one heart is for the public. From the biography of Yin Kaishan.

The origin of Idioms

In Qing Dynasty, Li Baojia's "washing in prison" is a wedge: "at this point, if you want them to destroy their families and relieve their hardship, I'm afraid they'll go all over the world. There's no such good person."

Analysis of Idioms

Forget to eat and sleep, work hard

Antonym: extravagance, muddle along

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attribute and adverbial

Examples

It's a barren year. I have to walk every day. There are so many people on the way that I can't buy anything to eat These soldiers have turned out to be in the public service.