等米下锅 děngmǐxiàguō to live hand to mouth Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 等米下锅 等米下鍋 děngmǐxiàguō to live hand to mouth To wait for rice to put in the pot; to be in extreme financial distress or poverty to wait for necessary conditions To wait passively for necessary materials or a precondition to be met before work can proceed rather than taking the initiative Frequency Written text 0.092 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
等米下锅 等米下鍋 děngmǐxiàguō to live hand to mouth To wait for rice to put in the pot; to be in extreme financial distress or poverty to wait for necessary conditions To wait passively for necessary materials or a precondition to be met before work can proceed rather than taking the initiative Frequency Written text 0.092 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
