喝西北風
hē​xī​běi​fēng

to go hungry

  • created sense approved 喝西北风/喝西北風 · hē​xī​běi​fēng · to go hungry — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    喝西北风 / 喝西北風

    hē​xī​běi​fēng

    to go hungry

    literally "to drink the northwest wind"; to be too poor to buy food or have nothing to eat; to suffer from cold and hunger

    喝, 西北风

    喝 (literal) → 喝 · hē · to drink 西北风 (literal) → 西北风/西北風 · xī​běi​fēng · to have nothing to eat

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense