辍食吐哺
chuò​shí​tǔ​bǔ

to stop eating and spit out food

  • created sense approved 辍食吐哺/輟食吐哺 · chuò​shí​tǔ​bǔ · to stop eating and spit out food — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    辍食吐哺 / 輟食吐哺

    chuò​shí​tǔ​bǔ

    to stop eating and spit out food

    To stop eating and spit out the food in one's mouth; figuratively describes being so preoccupied with urgent matters or so eager to receive talented guests that one has no time to finish a meal

    辍 (literal) → 辍/輟 · chuò · to stop 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 吐哺 (literal) → 吐哺 · tǔ​bǔ · to spit out food

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

    created sense