债台高筑
債臺高築Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.lit. build a high desk of debt (idiom); heavily in debt
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Wiktionary
- 1.be up to one's eyeballs in debt; racked with debt
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Etymology
From the legend of King Nan of Zhou, the last king of Zhou dynasty, who hid himself on a platform in the palace to avoid people demanding him to pay back the debt for wars, as quoted in the Book of Han
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT