shí​gǔ​bù​huà

to be a half-baked pedant

  1. to eat
    to eat; to consume; to have a meal
  2. 古 gǔ noun
    ancient things
    things from the past, such as artifacts, history, or classical texts
  3. 不 bù adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  4. 化 huà verbnoun
    to digest
    to digest food; to dissipate phlegm; to remove or eliminate