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Describe a very old-fashioned four-word word

Words that describe very shabby: tight, wet on the top, short brown, ragged and ragged.

1, stretching

Pronunciation: Zhu j n Ji àn zhǐu

Description: When you pull a skirt, you will show your elbows and describe the clothes as tattered. Metaphor attend to one thing and lose another, poor to cope with.

Source: "Zhuangzi Jean Wang": "If you don't make clothes for ten years, you will be crowned with the crown, and you will be stretched and stretched."

I haven't added new clothes for ten years in a row. When I put on my hat, I broke my hat band. When I pulled up my skirt, I showed my arm. When I put on my shoes, I showed my heels.

Example: There is so much work to be arranged, so many new friends to visit the project, but so few people I can use. I'm really short of money.

2. Upper leakage and lower humidity

Pronunciation: sh à ng lê u xi à sh:

Explanation: upper: refers to the roof; Bottom: refers to the ground. Describe the dilapidated house, unable to shelter from the wind and rain.

Source: Zhuangzi Qin Wang, Zhuang Zhou of the Warring States Period: "The top leaks and the bottom is wet, and the string sits."

It means: the house is dilapidated and can't cover the wind and rain, sitting and playing musical instruments.

When it rained, their old shed leaked and got wet.

3. Short brown is endless

Pronunciation: duān hèbèwán

Explanation: short brown: coarse cloth and short clothes, the clothes of the ancient poor or homo erectus; End: complete. Coarse cloth and short clothes are still incomplete. Describe living in poverty and rags.

Source: Han Hanfeizi During the Warring States Period, Han Hanfeizi's Five Cheaps: "Those who are not profitable and dross don't wait for meat, and those who are short and brown don't wait for embroidery."

It means: people who don't even have enough to eat will not seek exquisite meals; People who don't even have a complete coarse clothes can't expect brilliant literary talent.

Example: On the train to school, grandma told him the historical story of "the short brown never ends".

4. Clothes can't cover your body

Pronunciation: y and bügàI tǐ

Explanation: cover: cover. The clothes are so tattered that you can't even cover your body. Describe living in poverty

Source: Tang Du Fu's "Into the Carving Form": "Only the minister's clothes are not covered, and the student number is sent."

It means: it's just that I'm in rags and often rely on people to help me live.

Example: Students think it is quite difficult to make sentences with "naked clothes".

5. Lost rags

Pronunciation: pò làn liú di

Description: It's ruined.

Source: Wu Ming, Cheng En, The Journey to the West, the 46th time: "Open the official and open it. If you hold up the Dan card, it is really a piece of garbage. "

He despises the rubbish.