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Trad. 饑饉薦臻
- famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
Trad. 如飢似渴
- to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly
- to long for sth
Trad. 畫餅充飢
- lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
- to feed on illusions (idiom)
Trad. 充飢止渴
- to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
Trad. 漏脯充飢
- lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)
- fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits; shortsighted
Trad. 飢不擇食
- when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers
- When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.
Trad. 飢寒交迫
- beset by hunger and cold (idiom)
- starving and freezing
- in desperate poverty
Trad. 飢腸轆轆
- (idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
Trad. 啼饑號寒
- hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
Trad. 積穀防饑
- storing grain against a famine
- to lay sth by for a rainy day
- also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
Trad. 飽人不知餓人飢
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
Trad. 飽漢不知餓漢飢
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).