寅吃卯粮，汉语成语，拼音是yín chī mǎo liáng，意思是形容这一年吃了下一年的粮。寅年吃了卯年的粮食。比喻经济困难，入不敷出，只能预先挪用眼下亏空着的财物或还没到手的收入，不顾将来。出自《龙图公案·借衣》。

• 中文名称 寅吃卯粮
• 拼音 yín chī mǎo liáng
• 出处 《龙图公案·借衣》
• 注音 ㄧㄣˊ ㄔㄧ ㄇㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄤˊ
• 释义 形容这一年吃了下一年的粮

成语出处

　　明·无名氏《龙图公案·借衣》:"先后是伊妻子，何故寅年要吃卯年粮;终久是伊家室，不合今日先讨明日饭。"

成语用法

　　偏正式;作宾语;含贬义

　　示例

　　清·李宝嘉《官场现形记》第十五回:"就是我们总爷也是寅吃卯粮，先缺后空。"

　　虽然信用卡正成为金融业越来越接受的付款方式，但许多人仍然心存疑虑，把信用卡看成是"寅吃卯粮"生活方式的主要表现。

　　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.

　　普京本周一谴责美国寅吃卯粮，是全球经济的"寄生虫"，并称美元的主导地位对。

　　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.

　　尽管信用卡已经成为金融业越来越"受宠"的支付方式，但许多人依旧心存疑虑，把它看成是"寅吃卯粮"生活方式的主要表现。

　　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 "live now, pay later" syndrome.

　　中国老百姓，以及亚洲其它地区的老百姓一直过着量入为出的节俭生活，让美欧人得以寅吃卯粮大肆挥霍。

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

　　"西方过去几十年寅吃卯粮，因而已经透支了自己的部分未来，"哥伦比亚大学教授埃德蒙费尔普斯说。

　　"Over the past few years living beyond the west, which has its own part of the overdraft future," Columbia University's professor Edmund Phelps said.

　　实际上，如果泰国人和印尼人不是来自天生礼貌的社会，他们会这样跟美国和欧洲说:"现在到了你们吞下你曾开给我们的苦药的时候了:别再寅吃卯粮了。"

　　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."