好逸恶劳 — Chinese idiom
好逸恶劳
hào yì wù láo
Traditional: 好逸惡勞
Meaning
- to love ease and comfort and hate work
Character by character
- 好hàogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 逸yìto flee, to escape, to break loose
- 恶wùbad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nause
- 劳láoto labor, to toil; to do manual work
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
- 好吃懒做 hào chī lǎn zuò
- 好梦难成 hǎo mèng nán chéng
- 好奇尚异 hào qí shàng yì
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