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the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy

民穷财尽
mín qióng cái jìn
m+ín·2nd toneq+ióng·2nd tonec+ái·2nd tonej+ìn·4th tone
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Synonyms
(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian)民不聊生mín bù liáo shēng(idiom) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a frugal life身无长物shēn wú cháng wù