坐吃山崩
zuò​chī​shān​bēng

to sit and eat until the mountain crumbles

  • created reference approved 坐吃山崩 → 坐吃山空 (variant) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    坐吃山崩 zuò​chī​shān​bēng

    坐吃山空 zuò​chī​shān​kōng

    variant

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

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  • created sense approved 坐吃山崩 · zuò​chī​shān​bēng · to sit and eat until the mountain crumbles — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    坐吃山崩

    zuò​chī​shān​bēng

    to sit and eat until the mountain crumbles

    To consume wealth without producing anything, leading eventually to the exhaustion of even a vast fortune; to live in idleness and empty one's coffers.

    坐 (literal) → 坐 · zuò · to receive without effort 吃 (literal) → 吃 · chī · to live on 山崩 (literal) → 山崩 · shān​bēng · landslide

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

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