糟糠妻
zāo kāng qī
Pinyin
Definition
糟糠妻
-
- wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
Character Decomposition
Idioms (7)
乱七八糟
- 1 everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess
- 2 at sixes and sevens
夫妻反目
- 1 man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
妻离子散
- 1 a family wrenched apart (idiom)
宠妾灭妻
- 1 favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom)
- 2 spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
朋友妻不可欺
- 1 you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)