cháng'ānjūdàbùyì
life is hard in the big city
- life is hard in the big city
- (literary) it is not easy to live in the capital; a metaphor for the high cost of living in a large city. This expression originates from a pun on the name of the Tang poet 白居易 báijūyì, to whom it was said that living in the capital Cháng'ān was not easy (bù yì).