idiom > economize on food and clothing
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Shrink clothes diet
  Explanation: Eat less wear. Refers to living frugal.
  Usage: Joint type; as predicate, attributive; with a compliment
  Source: Lu Song "Jiannan Poems by Autumn Song": "I would like to cover adjacent Tibetan music, clothes shrink diet Qin Geng Sang."
suō yī jié shí
  Frugal living
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  O I would like to cover songs like reservoirs, reducing diet Qin Geng Yi Sang. - Lu Song, "by Song Jian Nan Shi Gao Qiu"
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Wear that to eat, living frugal
  Wear that to eat, live frugal. Lu Song, "Song of Autumn by": "I would like to cover songs neighborhood pool, reducing diet Qin Geng Yi Sang." Will be "cut clothing section I," "reducing clothing Sik food." Song Su "beg not to loose the Young Money cups shaped": "Farmers home, live within our means, reducing clothing section I, while the poor have enough." Qing-mei Zeng Liang, "Cui Gong Ren Epitaph": "Mother shrink clothing Sik food, area art integrated reason, perhaps a concern to adults. "
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English Expression
  1. n.:  economize on food and clothing
Thesaurus
fight against heaven and earth, live frugally, scholasticism, pussyfoot, watch out, proper, hold one's cards close to one's chest, Cuyilishi, Chuyisuoshi, eat sparingly because of poverty, Live in poverty, scale new heights; attain a yet higher goal, More into a pole, when bitterness is finished,sweetness begins, get a break, diligent and frugal, Plain living, hardworking and thrifty abstinence, scrupulousness, ado Jiejue, Talk to pawn month, Clothes made of cloth Sparse food, wrestle, asperity build a business, showing the utmost fortitude, be in extreme poverty, Hungry intercept, hold buckle and thong together, Slum Basket for cooked rice scoop, Oufanpiaoyin, Not to Tailai, Suoyijiekou, To eat with fine, budget liberally and spend sparingly, Fresh thin clothing single, cycle, self-sufficient, circulation move back and forth, Eventually renew, circulation alternate, L-said, soonest mended .(=The least said the better.), Scoop basket for cooked rice, economize on food and clothing, cut one'scoataccording to one's cloth
Antonym Group
don't cause (sb/sth) to be in a certain condition, hot, listlessness, have (everything) one's own way, sort, railroading, monstrous, amazing, horrifying, breathtaking, perplex, Dwell Buy disaster, careless; negligent, splash one's money about, befaced with imminent disaster, luxury dissipate, s clothes, flighty and impatient coarse temperament, Flighty and impatient Qizao, Careless Flotation, proud and arrogant, Fail do cause (sb/sth) to be in a certain condition, allegro, slip, neglect, behave unscrupulously, Plaguing the country Loudly, marvelous, abrupt, superficial, go off at half cock, misrule, anarchy, exorbitance, chaotic, Ecliptic Wan Qian, thunderbolt, fail or neglect to do sth, unhoped-for, careless (in handling things), chaos, addle, furious, culpa, Jia disaster respect, ephemeral, transient, calamity comes by means of mouth, be lapped in luxury, abrupt, incaution, unthoughtful and rash, disorderly, close association during childhood, without scruple, Lin Shan breast meat, the dazzling human world with its myriad temptations, T-much, and err much., sudden, rich, alcohol Green light red, mellow wine woman, King fans, Jinmizhizui, lightning, incredible, Qingtianpili, wind,flowers,snow and moon, romantic themes, life in luxury, Million of money on food, Anon See the flowers, So so., Jiaoshe profligacy, coarse Flighty and impatient air, Thick floating