Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「寅吃卯糧」, with more below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「寅吃卯糧」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
This year we eat the next year’s food. It is a metaphor for financial difficulties, where income is not enough to cover expenses, and future income is spent in advance. A metaphor for financial difficulties and not making ends meet.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yín chī mǎo liáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 hek3 maau5 leung4
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