民窮財盡 [ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄘㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄣˋ; min2 qiong2 cai2 jin4] the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy ◄ ►