He had long grown used to a life of thatched doors and jar-mouth windows.
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Classical / written. The fixed pair 蓬户瓮牖 (pénghù wèngyǒu, 'thatched door, jar-mouth window') is a stock phrase for poverty in literary texts. In modern speech use 寒舍 (hánshè, my humble home) or simply 简陋的房子 (jiǎnlòu de fángzi).
