寅吃卯粮 yínchīmǎoliáng to live beyond one's means Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 寅吃卯粮 寅吃卯糧 yínchīmǎoliáng to live beyond one's means (idiom) lit. eating next year's grain in the year of the tiger; fig. to spend money before one has earned it or to dip into future funds; to live now and pay later. Frequency Written text 0.173 per million Cross-References See 入不敷出 rùbùfūchū Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
寅吃卯粮 寅吃卯糧 yínchīmǎoliáng to live beyond one's means (idiom) lit. eating next year's grain in the year of the tiger; fig. to spend money before one has earned it or to dip into future funds; to live now and pay later. Frequency Written text 0.173 per million Cross-References See 入不敷出 rùbùfūchū Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
