Results for “吃”

mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience

(Tw) (of the police) to bury a crime (i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc)

(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder / (fig.) to be ablaze with anger / ornery / snappy

drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)

see 吃水不忘掘井人[chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rén]

Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)

(of food) to absorb oil / (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel

(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust

to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage

(coll.) to serve time in prison / (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)

(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it

peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016)

(coll.) to live off income from rental properties

(coll.) to suffer a humiliation

to eat without paying / to freeload

to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload

(coll.) food

lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money

table manners

susceptible to force but not persuasion

to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only

to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only

food and clothing

to eat without working (idiom) / to take one's pay and not care about the rest

in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important

to live off one's past achievements / to rest on one's laurels

to be sick of eating (sth) / to be tired of eating (sth)

hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)

to graze / to eat grass

lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye

see 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡|吃着碗里，看着锅里[chī zhe wǎn lǐ , kàn zhe guō lǐ]

(slang) unattractive / ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑[chǒu])

to be taken advantage of

(of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words (Tw)

(idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds

slot machine

to be a guest at a dinner party / to be wined and dined (as a bribe)

to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb

chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing

lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion