be in rags

be in rags

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī B ù B ì t ǐ, which means that the clothes are so ragged that they can't cover the body; it describes the poor life. It comes from Jin Diao Fu Biao.

Idiom explanation

Cover: cover.

The origin of Idioms

Du Fu of Tang Dynasty wrote in the Fu table of Jin Diao: "only the clothes of the officials are not covered, and the student number depends on people." Song Hongmai's "Yijian Ding Zhi · luxury newspaper" said: "his wife is not fully clothed. She asks beggars for 100 yuan every day. She can only live with porridge."

Idiom usage

It refers to living in poverty. The farmers, who were not fully clothed and their families were worried about food and clothing, looked at the group of people who did not know the difficulties of farming, and did not say a word. (the land of Qin Mu) and the biography of Zhang Zhao in the history of Ming Dynasty: "today's Jifu and Shandong are still suffering from the disaster. The small people are on hunger strike and fleeing, and their wives are naked." volume 35 of "surprise at the first carving of a case": "there is a poor man in Caozhou called Jia Ren. You can't cover yourself with clothes, and you can't eat enough. "