(saying) a person cannot become wealthy without windfall profits (or ill-gotten gains etc), just as a horse cannot get fat without night feed
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to fatten (animal before slaughter)
(animal) fattening preparation
manure
to unfairly divide benefits, favoring a few
base fertilizer
baby fat
base fertilizer
(idiom) to cherry-pick / to pick the best parts for oneself / to be choosy
to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom) / personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior
to apply fertilizer
organic fertilizer
to make fertilizer by steeping organic materials in water and leaving them to decompose / fertilizer produced by this method
inorganic fertilizer
animal manure
morbidly obese (medicine)
phosphate fertilizer
to accumulate manure / to lay down compost
green manure
slow-release fertilizer
to fatten up (livestock)
(idiom) overweight as a result of living a life of privilege
(of a stock animal) well-fed / fat
(of a livestock animal) plump and strong / well-fed
(coll.) bold / brazen / to have a lot of nerve
see 舒肥法[]
(Tw) (loanword) sous vide
fertilizer for potted flowers / fertilizer used to promote flowering in crop plants
bacterial manure
compound fertilizer
lit. light furs and stout horses / fig. to live in luxury
manure
top soil dressing / additional fertilizer
overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)
topdressing (agriculture)
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
to live off the fat of the land (idiom) / to have a luxurious lifestyle
cake fertilizer
hyperostosis (abnormal thickening of bone)
leaven / sourdough
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