very poor

very poor

In Chinese, Pinyin is y ō ngs ū Nb ù J ǐ, which means you can't support yourself with three meals a day. To describe poverty. It's from "Yongchuang sketches · world strategy I".

Idiom explanation

Three meals a day is not self-sufficient. To describe poverty. It's the same as "not going on".

The origin of Idioms

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu guoframe's "Yong Chuang Xiao pin · Tian Xia CE Yi" said: "in the Miao area, the chief officials were not happy to go to Daye's master's office, but they gave orders on behalf of others, and gave them many kinds of pensions, but they paid all kinds of money. They had no money to take, and they didn't give anything to dinner

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute, object; used in life

Examples

The people of a declining country can't get enough food. The study of benevolence by Tan Sitong in Qing Dynasty