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

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