鼎食
dǐng shí
Pinyin
Definition
鼎食
-
- extravagant food
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一言九鼎
- 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
三旬九食
- 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
- 3 in dire straits
人为财死,鸟为食亡
- 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
- 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
人声鼎沸
- 1 lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom)
- 2 hubbub
- 3 brouhaha
问鼎中原
- 1 to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)