寅吃卯糧

【解釋】：這一年吃了下一年的糧。比喻經濟困難，收入不夠支出，預先支用了以後的進項。比喻指經濟困難，入不敷出。

【用法】：作賓語、定語；指人的經濟狀況

1、明·無名氏《龍圖公案·借衣》：“先後是伊妻子，何故寅年要吃卯年糧；終久是伊家室，不合今日先討明日飯。”

2、清·李寶嘉《官場現形記》第十五回：“就是我們總爺也是寅吃卯糧，先缺后空。”

eat next year's food；anticipate one's income；draw one's pay in advance；eat one's corn in the blade；

雖然信用卡正成為金融業越來越接受的付款方式，但許多人仍然心存疑慮，把信用卡看成是“寅吃卯糧”生活方式的主要表現。

Although credit cards are becoming a more acceptable part of the financial scene, they are still regarded with suspicion bymany as being a major part of the "live now, pay later" syndrome.

普京本周一譴責美國寅吃卯糧，是全球經濟的“寄生蟲”，並稱美元的主導地位對。

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on theglobal economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

中國老百姓，以及亞洲其它地區的老百姓一直過著量入為出的節儉生活，讓美歐人得以寅吃卯糧大肆揮霍。

People in china, and elsewhere in Asia, have lived beneath their means to enable people in the us and europe to livebeyond theirs.

實際上，如果泰國人和印尼人不是來自天生禮貌的社會，他們會這樣跟美國和歐洲說：“現在到了你們吞下你曾開給我們的苦藥的時候了：別再寅吃卯糧了。”

Indeed, if the thais and Indonesians did not come from inherently polite societies, they would say to the US and Europe:"the time has come for you to administer the same bitter medicine you prescribed to us: stop living beyond your means."

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