炒鱿鱼 chǎoyóuyú to fire someone Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 炒鱿鱼 炒魷魚 chǎo//yóuyú to fire someone verb + noun (colloquial) to dismiss an employee from a job; to fire or sack. The term comes from the way cooked squid curls up like a rolled-up bedroll, implying that the person has to pack up and leave. 我刚被炒了鱿鱼。 wǒ gāng bèi chǎo le yóuyú. I just got fired. to fry squid to stir-fry or cook squid as a culinary dish Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 4.83 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.471 per million Cross-References Synonym 辞退 cítuì卷铺盖 juǎnpūgaiHas abbreviation 炒 chǎo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
炒鱿鱼 炒魷魚 chǎo//yóuyú to fire someone verb + noun (colloquial) to dismiss an employee from a job; to fire or sack. The term comes from the way cooked squid curls up like a rolled-up bedroll, implying that the person has to pack up and leave. 我刚被炒了鱿鱼。 wǒ gāng bèi chǎo le yóuyú. I just got fired. to fry squid to stir-fry or cook squid as a culinary dish Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 4.83 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.471 per million Cross-References Synonym 辞退 cítuì卷铺盖 juǎnpūgaiHas abbreviation 炒 chǎo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
