眼馋肚饱 — Chinese idiom
眼馋肚饱
yǎn chán dù bǎo
Traditional: 眼饞肚飽
Meaning
- to have eyes bigger than one's belly
Character by character
- 眼yǎneyelet, hole, opening
- 馋chángreedy, gluttonous; lewd, lecherous
- 肚dùbelly; abdomen, bowels
- 饱bǎosatisfied; to eat one's fill
Idioms sharing a character
- 一板一眼 yī bǎn yī yǎn
- 一板三眼 yī bǎn sān yǎn
- 一眼看穿 yī yǎn kàn chuān
- 一饱眼福 yī bǎo yǎn fú
- 以眼还眼 yǐ yǎn huán yǎn
- 冷眼旁观 lěng yǎn páng guān
- 合眼摸象 hé yǎn mō xiàng
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 手眼通天 shǒu yǎn tōng tiān
- 打马虎眼 dǎ mǎ hu yǎn
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