idiom > be in extreme poverty
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Poor family, such as washing
  Explanation: Family was too poor washed out as water will. Describe extreme poverty.
  Usage: The main predicate; as adverbial; describe extreme poverty
  Source: Yuan Qin Jian-fu "haircut to be guests": "Young study Confucianism industry niche, rather read poetry and literature, such as washing fight Chennai poor family."
  Examples: Mother pathetic young, show sorrow tears ąýÚ, then any typical government owned, to serve servant Zuo trip, six months before also. After the funeral, ~. ★ Qing Pu "Strange Stories of any show."
jiā pín rú xǐ
  Family is very poor, as if washed by the water, nothing
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Nothing family was too poor
  Family was too poor nothing. Describe the very poor family. "Awaken the common saying Tokgo students way back downtown dream": "A lady a sense of kindness, repeated with relief. Just a poor family, such as washing, food and clothing boring. Even though Pakistan may prosper in the future, can not put out the present unhappy plight Ruzhinaihe?" Clear Jijun, "Notes of the Kou jump to listen to the three": "Law students from a poor family, such as washing after the resort to transsclero end." such as: before he was poor, such as washing, now lives are improving.
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No. 4
  【词目】家贫如洗
  【读音】jiā pín rú xǐ
  【释义】家里穷得像水冲洗过一样。形容极度贫穷。
  【出处】元·秦简夫《剪发待宾》第一折:“不生幼习儒业,颇读诗书,争夸家贫如洗。”
  【示例】清·蒲松龄《聊斋志异·任秀》:“母怜其幼,秀哀涕欲死,遂典资治任,俾老仆佐之行,半年始还。殡后,家贫如洗。”
English Expression
  1. n.:  be in extreme poverty,  as poor as a church mouse,  as poor as job
  2. v.:   be in extreme poverty
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, economize on food and clothing, scrupulousness, ado Jiejue, Talk to pawn month, Clothes made of cloth Sparse food, wrestle, asperity build a business, showing the utmost fortitude, 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