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吴市吹箫

Traditional 吳市吹簫

wú shì chuī xiāo

to beg on the streets

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wú shì chuī xiāo 吳市吹簫

  1. (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])

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