看菜吃饭 (看菜吃飯)
kān cài chī fàn
Pinyin
Definition
看菜吃饭 (看菜吃飯)
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- to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances
- to live within one's means
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 good-looking
- 2 nice-looking
- 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
- 4 embarrassed
- 5 humiliated
- 1 to look after
- 2 to take care of
- 3 to watch
- 4 to guard
- 1 to take a look at
- 2 to examine
- 3 to survey
- 4 (coll.) pretty soon
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
Idioms (20)
一眼看穿
- 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
不看僧面看佛面
- 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
- 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
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