黑吃黑
hēi chī hēi
Pinyin
Definition
黑吃黑
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- (of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
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 abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēi lóng jiāng]
- 1 to entail strenuous effort
- 2 to toil at a task
- 3 strenuous
- 4 laborious
- 5 strain
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
Idioms (20)
一条路走到黑
- 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
- 3 to cling to one's course
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
吃一堑,长一智
- 1 Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.