白吃白喝
bái chī bái hē
Pinyin
Definition
白吃白喝
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- to freeload
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 have a meal
- 2 to eat
- 3 to make a living
- 1 clear
- 2 obvious
- 3 unequivocal
- 4 to understand
- 5 to realize
- 1 surname Bai
Idioms (20)
一清二白
- 1 perfectly clean
- 2 blameless
- 3 unimpeachable (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
不分皂白
- 1 not distinguishing black or white (idiom); not to distinguish between right and wrong
不分青红皂白
- 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
- 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong
不问青红皂白
- 1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
- 2 not to distinguish between right and wrong