very poor
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ō ngs ū Nb ù J ì, which means to eat the last meal without the next meal, describes the life is very poor. From Du Shi Yan Zhi.
Idiom explanation
A: breakfast; B: dinner.
The origin of Idioms
The seventh volume of Du Shi Yan Zhi written by Wu Mingshi in Qing Dynasty: "therefore, under the Hengmen gate, there is a long way to go, and there is no food to eat, and there is no food to eat."
Idiom usage
Subject predicate; predicate, attributive; derogatory. Example: in Zhu Yongchun's family precepts of Zhu Zi (the maxim of governing a family) in Ming Dynasty, it is said that although the dinner is not continued, there are still more joys
very poor
Take the big as the evil and the small as the evil - yǐ dà wù xì
Bring forth the flowers and invigorate the algae - yáng pā zhèn zǎo
feel sad for the loss of one 's kind - tù sǐ hú bēi
usurp a high post without doing a stroke of work - qiè wèi sù cān