吃不了兜着走
chī​bu​liǎo​dōu​zhe​zǒu

to face serious consequences

  • created sense approved 吃不了兜着走/吃不了兜著走 · chī​bu​liǎo​dōu​zhe​zǒu · to face serious consequences — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吃不了兜着走 / 吃不了兜著走

    chī​bu​liǎo​dōu​zhe​zǒu

    to face serious consequences

    Literally "to carry away leftovers from a meal that you cannot finish eating"; figuratively used as a warning or threat that someone will have to take responsibility for the serious trouble they have caused. caused

    吃不了 (literal) → 吃不了 · chī​bu​liǎo · unable to bear 兜 (literal) → 兜 · dōu · to take responsibility 着 (bound) → 着/著 · zhe · [continuous] 走 (literal) → 走 · zǒu · to leave

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense