with the skin gone,what can the hair adhere to — a thing cannot exist without its basis
Without the skin, the hair stand
Explanation: Yan: Where; Attachment: attachment. Have no skin, hair attached to it where? Analogy of things lost to the basis of survival, can not exist. Usage: Complex sentence; as Complement; describe the relationship between Source: Pre Hengyu "Zuo Xi Public fourteen years": "the skin, hair An Fu?" Examples: If I can not be maintained in the country, you are not also follow the family broke up? ~. (Yao Xueyin "Rereading" thirty-second chapter II)
pí zhī bù cún, máo jiāng yān fù
Paper did not, and hair is still long Where? Metaphor no basis, things can not exist