民窮財盡 [－穷财尽]

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Pinyin mín qióng cái jìn

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. phrase, idiomatic
    the people are impoverished