囊中羞涩
náng​zhōng​xiū​sè

to be short of money

  • created sense approved 囊中羞涩/囊中羞澀 · náng​zhōng​xiū​sè · to be short of money — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    囊中羞涩 / 囊中羞澀

    náng​zhōng​xiū​sè

    to be short of money

    to be embarrassingly short of money; a polite or humorous way to say one's pockets are empty

    囊 (literal) → 囊 · náng · bag 中 (literal) → 中 · zhōng · middle 羞涩 (literal) → 羞涩/羞澀 · xiū​sè · impoverished

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

    created sense