人老珠黄
      Explanation: Old woman old neglected analogy, as a result of age-old pearl luster lost as worthless.
      Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; containing derogatory
      Source: Qing Zhang Guisheng "severance worry collection": "become old, Spring Can Hua Xie."
      Examples: ~ Not really worth taking this little bit of road, turned up on the difficulty, I have to go back to a nap yet. (Qing Wu Jian "makes up unheard-of" the seventh back)
  • Thesaurus:  hopeless, sick beyond cure, The breath is dying out. dying, irreparableness, Human life Risk shallow, have one foot in the grave; be getting nearer and nearer to coffin, a fatal wound, be hopeless, illness To the marrow follow, listen to, submit, in one's declining years, Dead wood rot strains, declining rapidly as the sun is setting beyond the western hills, Riboyanzi, the evening of one's life, kao huang, be dying
  • Antonym Group:  A single flower, Eternal future generations, aeon lasting forever, Aeon Evergreen, prosperity advance, a thousand years all ages, aeon, lady of a certain age, like the sun at high noon, like the rising sun— have great expectations, a lot of guests, Dynasty, who carried on amorous affairs even when she was getting old, a, be just unfolding, Sunrise on constant, Rising sun, vigorousness, flourish prosperous, Her last request Fallen flowers, fallen angels, great momentum, reek steaming, buzzing with activity, dynamic, prosperity prosperity, prosperity prosperous and strong, prosperity glory, wise or good friends (literally) like gathering clouds--many, be in the ascendant, explode, prostitutes no longer young, Rumble Day, wind High in the clouds purpose, like a rising wind and scudding clouds, Wind tide