What is eating dirt? What do you mean by eating dirt?

Eating dirt means having no money to eat, so poor that you can only eat dirt.

Double eleven eats soil, which means that double eleven shopping costs so much money, and there is no money to eat, so we can only "eat soil".

The meaning of terrier:

Eating dirt means that you are too poor to eat and can only eat dirt. Later, it expanded to online shopping, emphasizing the madness of shopping. Netizens often laugh at themselves for spending too much money next month when shopping excessively.

Source of terrier:

This word is associated with poverty. It comes from the cartoon of Oriental Plan, in which the protagonist Hakurei Reimu digs food at the entrance of his shrine because he has no money to buy food.

Later, it was gradually used by the great gods of Cosplay to compare themselves: Cosplay burned money and was poor enough to eat soil. Then, gradually spread, suitable for shopaholics.

20 15 On the occasion of the Double Eleven Shopping Carnival, with the concentrated crazy shopping activities, the word "eating dirt" has been promoted from the self-mockery of netizens to the self-mockery of the whole people, and over time, it has expanded into a kind of self-mockery of regretting spending a lot of money on a thing or an item.

Application example:

1: Spend too much money and laugh at yourself for shopping: I spent too much money this month, so I can only eat dirt next month!

2. Describe when there is no money: "The salary has not been paid yet, so we can only eat dirt."