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| | lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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) | |
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| | a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm | |
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| | to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | (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) | |
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| | way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked | |
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| | to be taken advantage of | |
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| | to have a meal / to eat / to make a living | HSK 1 |
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| | to finish eating | |
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| | to take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom) | |
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| | to lead an idle life; to be a loafer | |
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| | to eat out / to eat at a restaurant | |
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| | to shock / to amaze | |
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| | vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful | |
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| | to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling) | |
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| | dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power | |
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| | to take medicine | |
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| | (neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it | |
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| | to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only | |
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| | food and clothing | |
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| | to eat and drink / food and drink | |
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| | all one's strength | |
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| | to be a vegetarian | |
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| | chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing | |
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| | to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself | |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | (coll.) food | |
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| | hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom) | |
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| | Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes. | |
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| | to bring trouble on oneself | |
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| | to gorge oneself / to pig out | |
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| | (fig.) to regret (doing sth) | |
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| | to dine and dash / to leave without paying | |
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| | a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom) | |
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| | to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian | |
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| | to eat and drink extravagantly / to binge | |
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| | lit. the child who cries gets the candy (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease | |
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| | lit. to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling (idiom) / fig. to lead a life of dissipation | |
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| | to graze; to eat grass | |
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| | (neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust | |
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| | taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish | |
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| | to be unsure about a matter / to be uncertain / to be unable to make sense of sth | |
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| | exploitative / oppressive | |
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| | (lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal | |
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| | to gorge oneself with food | |
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| | happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give | |
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| | to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful | |
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| | to eat without paying / to freeload | |
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| | lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease | |
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| | to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain | HSK 5 |
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| | to provide full board | |
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| | to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual | |
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| | having nothing better to do | |
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| | tasty; delicious | HSK 1 |
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| | to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous | |
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| | A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine | |
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| | to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair | |
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| | lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences | |
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| | lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well | |
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| | to be popular / to be getting on well / much in demand | |
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| | unmoved by force or persuasion | |
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| | to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload | |
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| | (slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑) | |
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| | (of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity | |
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| | glutton / chowhound | |
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| | lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence | |
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| | (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items) | |
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| | food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there) | |
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| | popular / in demand / well regarded | |
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| | be unpopular / won't work | |
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| | in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed | HSK 4 |
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| | to be jealous | |
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| | to face legal action; to get sued | |
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| | not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood | |
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| | to be refused entrance; to find the door closed | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | to live off a woman | |
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| | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind | |
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| | to eat up / to consume | |
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| | (Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc) | |
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| | to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly | |
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| | street food; snack | HSK 4 |
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| | to stammer; to stutter / Taiwan pr. [kou3ji2] | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted | |
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| | to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford | |
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| | mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience | |
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| | to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth) | |
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| | to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you | |
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| | lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion | |
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