idiom > look as if one had lost one's parents— look utterly wretched
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如丧考妣
Pinyin: rú sàng kǎo bǐ

Usage: 动宾式；作谓语、状语；含贬义

Explanation: 丧：死去；考：已死的父亲；妣：已死的母亲。好象死了父母一样地伤心。

Source: 《尚书·舜典》：“二十有八载，帝乃殂落，百姓如丧考妣。”

rú sàng kǎo bǐ
　　Kaobi: parents. Like dead parents. Describe the sadness and worry (derogatory)
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No. 3
　　20 has eight, God is the die off, people Rusangkaobi third set, the whole world stop close eight tones. - "Shun Code Book"
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Like parents, like dead
　　Like dead parents. Described as extreme sadness and worry. This with derogatory. "Shun Code Book": "20 has eight, God is the die off, people Rusangkaobi." Wang Song, "Notes on the Korean Son nothing a hundred years": "l-ya of Japan, the world No. muses, Rusangkaobi." Liu Qing "Through relentless iron": "You see his share of the pharynx pharynx hum of Tiqi it really Rusangkaobi."
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No. 5
　　Rusangkaobi (funeral sàng): as sad as parents die: God is the die off, people Rusangkaobi.
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No. 6
　　Funeral: dead; test: Father; deceased mother: Mother. Seems equally sad death of his parents.
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No. 7
　　如丧考妣 ( rú sàng kǎo bǐ )
　　解　释 考：死了的父亲；妣：死了的母亲。好像死了父母那样悲痛。
　　出　处 《尚书·舜典》：“二十有八载，帝乃殂落，百姓如丧考妣。”
　　用　法 动宾式；作谓语、状语；含贬义
　　示　例 柳青《狠透铁》十一：“你瞧他那份咽咽呜呜的啼泣吧，真正～。”
　　近义词 悲痛欲绝、痛不欲生
　　反义词 喜笑颜开、喜形于色
　　“考”和“妣”最初是指父亲和母亲。
　　《尔雅·释亲》曰：“父为考，母为妣。”
　　在《尚书》有了指死去父母的意思。
　　“二十有八载，帝乃殂落，百姓如丧考妣。”这句话的意思是：舜在位二十八年后死去，老百姓好像死了父母般伤心。
English Expression
  1. n.:  look as if one had lost one's parents— look utterly wretched,  look as if one had lost one's parents, look utterly wretched
  2. v.:  (literally) as if to have lost one's parents-- very sad,  very sorrowful,  very worried
Containing Phrases
lugubriouslook utterly wretched