idle about

idle about

Idleness is a Chinese idiom,

Pinyin is y ó ush à oxi á n.

Definition: refers to people wandering lazy, unwilling to participate in labor.

It comes from the imperial edict of the third year of Yuanhe in the history of the late Han Dynasty.

Entry

idle about

Pinyin

yóushǒuhàoxián

Citation explanation

Refers to a person who is idle and unwilling to work.

In the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Fan Ye's "post Han Dynasty, Zhang Di Ji, yuan he San Nian Zhao", it is said that "there are still many fertile fields, but there is no reclamation. He learned that he would give to the poor, give them grain, and do his best not to let the vagrants

Yuan · Wu Mingshi's "killing dogs and persuading husband": "I'll beat you a student who is idle and does not care about physiology.

Chapter 95 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: Jia Zhengzhi knew it was the old lady's idea, but he didn't dare to disobey it. He only complained about Mrs. Wang. He came out again and told the old lady to uncover the post behind her back. I didn't know those idle people had already exposed it.

Chapter 78 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: This inspector was idling around in Shanghai at that time, and he just had time to do those irrelevant things.

The second chapter of a brief history of civilization: most of the students who should take the exam are idle, and most of them are happy.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, not engaged in business

Antonym: to be enterprising, to bear hardships and stand hard work, to strive for strength and to be diligent

Idiom usage

Combined; used as predicate and attribute; with derogatory meaning