不劳而获 — Chinese idiom
不劳而获
bù láo ér huò
Traditional: 不勞而獲
Meaning
- to reap without sowing; to get sth without working for it; to sponge off others
Character by character
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 劳láoto labor, to toil; to do manual work
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 获huòto get, to obtain, to receive, to sieze
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一文不值 yī wén bù zhí
- 一毛不拔 yī máo bù bá
- 一病不起 yī bìng bù qǐ
- 一窍不通 yī qiào bù tōng
- 一笔不苟 yī bǐ bù gǒu
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