落湯雞
See also: 落汤鸡
Chinese
FWOTD – 3 December 2020
| to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind | soup; hot water | fowl; chicken | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (落湯雞/落湯鷄) | 落 | 湯 | 雞/鷄 | |
| simp. (落汤鸡) | 落 | 汤 | 鸡 | |
| Literally: “a chicken that fell in hot water”. | ||||
Pronunciation
Noun
落湯雞
- (idiomatic, figurative) someone who is soaking wet; someone who looks like a drowned rat
- 出來尋道士，渰死在山溪。撈得上來大家看，卻如一個落湯雞！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
- From: Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West, 16th century CE
- Chūlái xún dàoshì, yǎn sǐ zài shānxī. Lāo de shànglái dàjiā kàn, què rú yī ge luòtāngjī! [Pinyin]
- We went out to search for the Taoist priest, [found him] drowned in the mountain stream. When we fished him out for everyone to see, he was like a drenched chicken.
出来寻道士，渰死在山溪。捞得上来大家看，却如一个落汤鸡！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
- (idiomatic, figurative) someone in a difficult situation
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