Idiom 3

To continue with the pronunciation (fēng) from the previous idiom article. Let’s have a look at a new idiom ‘风餐露宿’(fēng cān lù sù). First of all let’s break it down and have a look at what each individual character means:

风(fēng) means ‘wind’

餐(cān) means ‘meal’

露(lù) means ‘expose’

宿(sù) means ‘shelter’
What it literally means is ‘to eat in the wind and sleep in the open’. This idiom is used in a situation where living conditions are very poor, for example, ‘风餐露宿的日子.’(fēng cān lù sù de rì zǐ) means ‘ going through the hardship of living.’