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混饭吃
hùn​fàn​chī

to scrape a living

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
混饭吃 混飯吃 hùn//fàn​chī
to scrape a living
to engage in a job or task just to make a living; can be used modestly to describe one's own work
to drift along
to get by with a job or life without being serious or having a real purpose; to muddle through work just for the paycheck

Frequency

Written text
0.313 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)