离乡背井

离乡背井 [lí xiāng bèi jǐng]

1. ■ leave one's native place [district]; be compelled to leave one's own village [home]; be far away from home and wife and children; be forced to leave one's native place and go far away; desert one's home and leave the place where one used to live; flee one's home [home village] and live as a vagabond; flee one's hometown (to seek a living); go abroad from one's native place:

离乡背井， 流离失所 be forced to flee one's home as a refugee and be separated from one's family