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Definition
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to eat
请吃点儿米饭。Please eat a little rice.
Related words (126)
to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
strenuous; to entail strenuous effort; (to be a) strain; to toil at a task; laborious; painful
(lit.) to eat dirt; (slang) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on items); dirt-poor
way of eating; how something is eaten; how a dish is prepared; the way a dish is to be cooked
to eat one's fill; to be full; to be stuffed; to feel full; to feel stuffed; to have eaten one's fill
(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder; (fig.) to be ablaze with anger; ornery; snappy
(lit.) to eat from government coffers; to serve as a government employee; to live off government money
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine; (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual; abnormal
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes; all kinds of abuse of power
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer; to bite the hand that feeds you
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop); (lit.) to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
(lit.) joint eaters; a restaurant social gathering, esp. organized online among strangers
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman; to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
(lit.) eating away next year's food in advance; (fig.) to dip into the next month's check; live now, pay later
to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit; (fig.) to hesitate to do sth until forced to do even more
Proverbs (2)
(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
(lit.) you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb); (fig.) learn to walk before you run
Idioms (24)
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom); to bear hardships and stand hard work; to be inured to hardships; to work hard
(lit.) to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom); (fig.) to live well
to eat without working (idiom); to take one's pay and not care about the rest
(lit.) eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom); amenable to coaxing but not coercion
(lit.) if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom); (fig.) you'll have to take the consequences
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom); to pluck up some courage
to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances; to live within one's means
to ask for trouble (idiom); to shoot oneself in the foot; to ask for it; to bring trouble upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back
(lit.) an old cow eats young grass (idiom); (fig.) a May-December relationship; a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
(lit.) a dog can't stop himself from eating shit (idiom); (fig.) bad habits are hard to change
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
(lit.) a good horse doesn't come back to the same pasture (idiom); (fig.) one should not go back to one's past experiences (of love, job etc)
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom); one just has to be patient; haste will ruin everything
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