水米不粘牙
shuǐ​mǐ​bù​zhān​yá

extremely poor

  • created sense approved 水米不粘牙 · shuǐ​mǐ​bù​zhān​yá · extremely poor — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    水米不粘牙

    shuǐ​mǐ​bù​zhān​yá

    extremely poor

    not having even a drop of water or a grain of rice to eat; destitute

    水米 (literal) → 水米 · shuǐ​mǐ · food and drink 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 粘 (literal) → 粘 · zhān · to adhere 牙 (literal) → 牙 · yá · tooth

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

    created sense