哭穷
哭穷
kū qióng
to bewail one's poverty; to complain about being hard up; to pretend to be poor
verb
Traditional: 哭窮
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- (verb) to bewail one's poverty
- to complain about being hard up
- to pretend to be poor
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Related Words
装穷叫苦(zhuāng qióng jiào kǔ)— to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
→孔融让梨(Kǒng Róng ràng lí)— Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
→人穷志短(rén qióng zhì duǎn)— poor and with low expectations
→反裘负刍(fǎn qiú fù chú)— lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom)
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