行ゆき大だい名みょうの帰かえり乞こ食じき

expression, noun

spending lavishly on the way out and returning broke

Idiomatic expression describing someone who spends extravagantly on the outward journey and has nothing left for the return trip, often used figuratively for any situation where one starts off grandly but ends up in poverty.

• 彼かれは旅りょ行こうで行ゆき大だい名みょうの帰かえり乞こ食じきになってしまった。

  He ended up spending like a lord on the way there and returning like a beggar from his trip.