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债台高筑

債臺高築
zhài tái gāo zhù

Meanings

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zhài tái gāo zhù
  1. 1.lit. build a high desk of debt (idiom); heavily in debt

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Wiktionary

  1. 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 from cjk-decomp · MIT

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