哀鴻遍野
simp哀鸿遍野oi1 hung4 pin3 je5āi hóng biàn yě
English
- lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims
- starving people fill the land
- catastrophe that afflicts everyone; literally, "the wilderness filled with mourning cranes".
粵語 — Cantonese
- 字面指四周圍都係喺度悲鳴嘅鴻雁,本身用嚟比喻災民流離失所,亦都指情況悲慘、嗌晒救命。
Examples
全球冧市無一倖免,全世界投資者都哀鴻遍野。
The global stock market collapse spared no one, with investors around the world all deeply impacted.
Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk