Results for “吃”

to live off a woman

(of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity

(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal

to be refused entrance / to find the door closed

to lead an idle life / to be a loafer

(video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game)

to dine and dash / to leave without paying

to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)

to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed

food / edibles

eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)

to eat one's fill

having nothing better to do / see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着

having nothing better to do

to eat out / to eat at a restaurant

lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well

(fig.) to score 0 (on a test, in competition etc)

to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian

lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence

lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success

see 三個和尚沒水喝|三个和尚没水喝[sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē]

a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm

not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with

(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

to eat indiscriminately

to sneak food / to eat sth on the sly / (coll.) to cheat on one's partner

(lit.) a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / (fig.) even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood

"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

to provide full board

see 又要馬兒跑，又要馬兒不吃草|又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草[yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo]

lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom) / fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too

edible

lit. joint eaters / a restaurant social gathering, esp. organized online among strangers

to devour

no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])

to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom) / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering / sometimes written 啞子吃黃連，有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连，有苦说不出

(coll.) (Tw) to get sacked / to be fired

vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful

lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) / fig. to spend one's money without generating any income

taking or eating more than one's due (idiom) / greedy and selfish