炊臼之戚
chuī​jiù​zhī​qī

sorrow of losing one's wife

炊臼之戚 chuī​jiù​zhī​qī
sorrow of losing one's wife
A literary idiom for the grief caused by the death of a wife; derived from an anecdote where cooking in a mortar (jiù) symbolized being without a pot (fǔ), a homophone for wife (fù) in certain dialects

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