好吃懒做 — Chinese idiom
好吃懒做
hào chī lǎn zuò
Traditional: 好吃懶做
Meaning
- happy to partake but not prepared to do any work
- all take and no give
Character by character
- 好hàogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 吃chīto eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 懒lǎnlazy, languid, listless
- 做zuòto work, to make; to act
Idioms sharing a character
- 不怀好意 bù huái hǎo yì
- 不知好歹 bù zhī hǎo dǎi
- 不识好歹 bù shí hǎo dǎi
- 做好做歹 zuò hǎo zuò dǎi
- 公诸同好 gōng zhū tóng hào
- 各有所好 gè yǒu suǒ hào
- 好事多磨 hǎo shì duō mó
- 好梦难成 hǎo mèng nán chéng
- 好奇尚异 hào qí shàng yì
- 好整以暇 hào zhěng yǐ xiá
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