support oneself
Self support, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ì sh í Q í L ì, meaning to live on one's own ability. It comes from the book of rites.
The origin of Idioms
"The book of rites · ritual vessels": "food power is innumerable." Chen Haoji said: "food, self-supporting people."
Idiom usage
He is a poor man, who lives in the fields and works as a professor. He is respected and afraid of doing anything wrong. In Ming Dynasty, Li Changqi wrote the story of Taishan censor.
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym self reliance antonym gain without effort
support oneself
greatly discerning and apprehending - dà chè dà wù
stragglers and disbanded soldiers - sǎn bīng yóu yǒng
let the eye travel over the great scenes and let fancy free - yóu mù chěng huái
hardship of travel without shelter - cān fēng sù yǔ
express one 's hidden sentiments and feelings by means of gentle allusions and ambiguous phrases - yǒng sāng yù liǔ