wú shì chuī xiāo
(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
吴
wú
area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai
市
shì
market
吹
chuī
to blow
箫
xiāo
xiao, a vertical bamboo flute