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食西北風
  sik6 sai1 bak1 fung1   jyutping
  shi2 xi1 bei3 feng1   pinyin
have nothing to eat; live on air
[Lit.] "to eat the northwest wind"
[]: 喝西北風

the origin of this sentence comes from 儒林外史 "The Scholars" (a Qing Dynasty classical novel)
Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
食西北風 / 食西北风

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Characters in this word:

 sik6 zi6  -  eat; food
西  sai1  -  west
 bak1  -  north
 fung1 fung3  -  wind
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