idiom > be very poor
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And at the food
  Explanation: And Japan: Two days merged into one day. Not to eat every day, day two days three days to get food. Described as living in poverty.
  Usage: Contraction type; as predicate; describe the non-poor
  Source: Han Dai Holy "Confucian Book of Rites, the line": "wicker door Gui hole in a wall, family Punta urn lattice window, easy clothes out, and at the food." Xuan Note: "Second, a solar eclipse is also daily."
  Examples: Thinking North levy are advised into the South, so crossing Lu May, in-depth barren, ~, Robinson is not self-pity is also non-Gu Wang Yeh are not breeding ground in Sichuan. (Three Shu Zhuge Liang, "after the Inst")
bìng rì ér shí
  Ge Jitian can eat meals a day, to describe the extreme life nonplus
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Food for two days, one day
  Food for two days with one day. Hard to describe life. "Confucian Book of Rites line": "poor family hole in a wall, humble house urn-you, easy clothes out, and on the water." Zheng Xuan Note: "Two of a solar eclipse is also daily." "Later Han CHEN Jing-Chuan Wang Xian ":" and on the water, turn those very public death gully. "Three Shu Zhuge Liang," Look at Several ":" So in May crossing Lu, depth barren, and on the food. "
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No. 4
  【词 目】 并日而食
  【发 音】 bìng rì ér shí
  【释 义】 并日:两天合并成一天。不能天天得食,两天三天才能得一天的粮食。形容生活穷困。
  【出 处】 西汉·戴圣《礼记·儒行》:“儒有一亩之宫,环堵之室,筚门圭窬,蓬户瓮牖,易衣而出,并日而食。”
  【近义词】 饔飧不继
  【示 例】 思惟北征,宜先入南,故五月渡泸,深入不毛,~,臣非不自惜也,顾王业不可偏安于蜀都。(三国·蜀·诸葛亮《后出师表》)
  【用 法】作谓语;形容十分贫穷。
成语词典
  成语名称 并日而食 汉语拼音 bìng rì ér shí 成语释义 并日:两天合并成一天。不能天天得食,两天三天才能得一天的粮食。形容生活穷困。 成语出处 《礼记·儒行》:“儒有一亩之宫,环堵之室,筚门圭窬,蓬户瓮牖,易衣而出,并日而食。” 使用例句 思惟北征,宜先入南,故五月渡泸,深入不毛,并日而食,臣非不自惜也,顾王业不可偏安于蜀都。
  ★三国·蜀·诸葛亮《后出师表》
English Expression
  1. n.:  be very poor
  2. v.:   eat on alternate days
Thesaurus
Food is not to have eaten one's fill, ravenously
Containing Phrases
Yiyi'erchu be very poor