suffer from cold and hunger

suffer from cold and hunger

Suffering from cold and hunger, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is á ID ø ngsh ò u è, which means poverty without food and clothing. It comes from a dream of Red Mansions.

The origin of Idioms

The hundredth chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty: "my mother hasn't suffered from cold and hunger all her life."

Idiom usage

It refers to living in poverty.

Examples

It is a luxury to talk about moral standards to the people who suffer from cold, hunger and suffering. It is immoral because there is no sympathy or love in it. The story of Ba Jin

He suffered from cold and hunger just to see her.