Blue clothes
Clothes in rags, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī sh ā NL á NL ǚ, which describes ragged clothes. It comes from the twelfth year of Xuangong in Zuozhuan.
The origin of Idioms
The language version of the twelfth year of Xuangong in Zuozhuan says: "the training is based on ruo'ao and Zhuo Mao, and the road is blue to enlighten the mountains and forests." Du Pre note: "blue thread, open clothes."
Idiom usage
In the book of warning to the world, Du Shiniang angrily sank the treasure chest: "the young master got blue clothes in the courtyard, and when he got the silver, he would redeem some of his clothes in the jieku." Also known as "ragged". Wu Chengen's journey to the West Chapter 44: Although the weather is warm, those people are also in blue clothes.
Analysis of Idioms
The synonym: ragged; the antonym: well dressed.
Blue clothes
hold down a job without doing a stroke of work - shī lù sù cān
Half understanding and half knowing - bàn jiě yī zhī