多吃多占 (多吃多佔)
duō chī duō zhàn
Pinyin
Definition
多吃多占 (多吃多佔)
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- taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish
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 many
- 2 much
- 3 often
- 4 a lot of
- 5 numerous
- 6 more
- 7 in excess
- 8 how (to what extent)
- 9 multi-
- 10 Taiwan pr. [duó] when it means "how"
- 1 number
- 2 amount
- 3 somewhat
- 1 over 20
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
Idioms (20)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不遑多让
- 1 lit. to have no time for civilities (idiom)
- 2 fig. not to be outdone
- 3 not to yield to one's opponents
人多势众
- 1 many men, a great force (idiom); many hands provide great strength
- 2 There is safety in numbers.
以少胜多
- 1 using the few to defeat the many (idiom); to win from a position of weakness
僧多粥少
- 1 lit. many monks and not much gruel (idiom)
- 2 fig. not enough to go around
- 3 demand exceeds supply