家無擔石

家无担石
jiāwúdànshí

to have very little food left; to have poverty-stricken

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

=1 家 jiā used in 傢伙 jiāhuo and 傢俱 jiājù
=1 家 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier: 個
=1 家 jie only used in 大家 (dàgū)
=2 無 mó used in 南無 nāmó
=2 無 wú
  1. not to have
  2. no
  3. none
  4. not
  5. to lack
  6. un-
  7. -less
3 擔石 dànshí
  1. (literary) very little; not much
  2. very little; not much