A couple of birds

A couple of birds

The Chinese idiom refers to a man's wife or couple. It comes from the third part of Lu zhailang written by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty.

explain

Ying and Yan refer to women; couple refers to partners. A man's wife or couple.

source

The third part of Lu zhailang written by Guan Hanqing in Yuan Dynasty: "you have your own couple. I don't care about everything from now on." Xu fuzuo's "the story of the red pear · Shiyao" in Ming Dynasty: "how can we make an appointment for the couple of Yings and yanlv in three spring, and forget that you are so far away."

Discrimination of words

Common degree: common emotional color: commendatory words; grammatical usage: as object and attribute; refers to lovers; idiom structure: combined generation time: Ancient idiom riddle: Lovers