The company planned ahead and had stored sufficient funds before the economic crisis.
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This idiom comes from the Book of Songs (诗经), the oldest collection of Chinese poetry. The original verse describes a bird mending its nest with mulberry bark before the rains come - a metaphor for forethought.
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未 (not yet) + 雨 (rain) + 绸缪 (to bind/wind around) - before it rains, bind things up. Picture wrapping your belongings with silk before a storm.
