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喝西北風
- to have nothing to eat
因為田地被暴風毀掉,老百姓只能喝西北風。 [MSC, trad.]
因为田地被暴风毁掉,老百姓只能喝西北风。 [MSC, simp.]- Yīnwèi tiándì bèi bàofēng huǐdiào, lǎobǎixìng zhǐnéng hē xīběifēng. [Pinyin]
- Because the farmland was destroyed by the storms, the (ordinary) people have nothing to eat.
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