吃皇粮 (吃皇糧)
chī huáng liáng
Pinyin
Definition
吃皇粮 (吃皇糧)
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- lit. to eat from government coffers
- to serve as a government employee
- to live off government money
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
- 1 to eat, drink and be merry (idiom)
- 2 to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
- 1 to finish eating
- 1 to eat up
- 2 to consume
Idioms (20)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
仓皇出逃
- 1 to run off in a great panic (idiom)
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
冠冕堂皇
- 1 high-sounding
- 2 dignified
- 3 pompous (idiom)
又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草
- 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
- 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too