磨洋工
mó​yáng​gōng

to loaf on the job

  • created sense approved 磨洋工 · mó​yáng​gōng · to loaf on the job — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    磨洋工

    mó​yáng​gōng

    to loaf on the job

    To dawdle or work slowly on purpose; to idle or goldbrick during work hours

    磨, 洋工

    磨 (literal) → 磨 · mó · to dawdle 洋 (literal) → 洋 · yáng · foreign 工 (literal) → 工 · gōng · work

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

    created sense