没吃没穿 (沒吃沒穿)
méi chī méi chuān
Pinyin
Definition
没吃没穿 (沒吃沒穿)
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- to be without food or clothing (idiom)
- to be very poor
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 to wear
- 2 to put on
- 3 to dress
- 4 to bore through
- 5 to pierce
- 6 to perforate
- 7 to penetrate
- 8 to pass through
- 9 to thread
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
- 1 to finish eating
- 1 to eat up
- 2 to consume
Idioms (20)
一眼看穿
- 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
光脚的不怕穿鞋的
- 1 lit. the barefooted people are not afraid of those who wear shoes (idiom)
- 2 fig. the poor, who have nothing to lose, do not fear those in power
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.
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