provide for oneself

provide for oneself

Self sufficiency, a Chinese idiom, pronounced Z ì J ǐ Z ì Z ú, means to rely on their own production to meet their own needs. It comes from the biography of Bukai in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Idiom explanation

(1) Someone or something can maintain itself without outside help.

(2) A country's economy can sustain itself.

(3) Meet your own needs with your own strength.

Give: give. Foot: satisfied.

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, object and attribute

Examples

Under the leadership of the party and the government, the people launched a large-scale production movement. Chapter 9 of Feng Deying's bitter cauliflower.