idiom > not have enough money to cover the expenses
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Inadequacy
  Explanation: Branch support; constraints flexion, extension was inadequate. Originally referred to the archery bow position, left hand support, right hand flexion. Refers to the lack of strength to deal with this aspect, and that side is also a problem.
  Usage: Joint type; as predicate, object, attribute; containing derogatory
  Source: "Western Zhou Dynasty Warring States policy" I can not bend the right to teach the child Zhizuo. "
  Examples: Two pincer attack, killing cold army ~, had Qijiayebing, defeated down. ★ Caidong Fan, Xu Jin Father "Romance of the Republic of popular" back to the twenty-eighth
No. 2
  Originally referred to the archery bow in direct support when the left arm, right arm bent and buckle string ◇ described a lack of financial resources to meet this side could not cope with that face, loss, very difficult up until then moved east west, following the inadequacy | it's only upright to make a world that will never have to hide the end of the first possession, the total inadequacy of ugly.
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zuǒ zhī yòu chù
  This means when the archery bow brace on his left arm, bend the right arm of the law deduction string. After that deal with the left turn, it was not right. That financial resources or inadequate, overwhelmed
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No. 4
  Language of the "Western Zhou Dynasty Warring States policy": "I can not support the left bend the right to teach children." Originally referred to when the archery bow brace on his left arm, right arm bent arrow button. "Historical Records Zhou Ji," cited as "support the left Qu Right." Changed to "inadequacy." Refers to financial resources or inadequate, overwhelmed. Ming Chen Zi "meeting with Finance": "and Xian Di Liao rates when extra measures, 45 million years old ... ... rates not less men, and the inadequacy, even today."
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No. 5
  Describe speech or writing as wrong and the poor in the cover up. Lu Xun's "northern and southern mobilization A Mr. Yang Cunren open letter open letter": "But because of rapid changes, pains in the dodge, which makes inadequacy." Qin Mu, "identify major, uphold the revolutionary justice": "The reactionary fallacy of inadequacy, stretched the minimum that is everywhere not stand light touch of. "
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No. 6
  左支右绌 ( zuǒ zhī yòu chù )
  解 释 支:支持;绌:屈曲,引伸为不足。原指弯弓射箭的姿势,左手支持,右手屈曲。指力量不足,应付了这方面,那方面又出了问题。
  出 处 西汉·刘向《战国策·西周策》:“我不能教子支左屈右。”
  用 法 联合式;作谓语、宾语、定语;含贬义; 指穷于应付。
  示 例 鲁迅《南腔北调集·答杨邨人先生公开信的公开信》:“不过因为急促的变化,苦心的躲闪,弄得~。”
  两路夹攻,杀得冷军~,只好弃甲曳兵,败阵下去。(蔡东藩、许厪父《民国通俗演义》第二十八回)
  近义词 捉襟见肘、挖肉补疮、东扶西倒
  反义词 左右逢源、尽如人意
English Expression
  1. n.:  not have enough money to cover the expenses,  be unable to cope with a situation,  be in straitened circumstances
Thesaurus
quandary, brace up one while the other tumbles down, about face a difficult choice
Antonym
The fall of a single leaf ushers in the autumn, 1 leaves were gone and To know land autumn, shoot first with one hand,then with the other, Zuoyiyouyi, versatile, Defoliate Zhiqiu