坐吃山空 — Chinese idiom
坐吃山空
zuò chī shān kōng
Meaning
- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth
- fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
Character by character
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 吃chīto eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 空kōnghollow, empty, deserted, bare
Idioms sharing a character
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 坐井观天 zuò jǐng guān tiān
- 坐享其成 zuò xiǎng qí chéng
- 坐以待毙 zuò yǐ dài bì
- 坐失机宜 zuò shī jī yí
- 坐失良机 zuò shī liáng jī
- 坐收渔利 zuò shōu yú lì
- 坐立不安 zuò lì bù ān
- 坐立难安 zuò lì nán ān
- 坐而论道 zuò ér lùn dào
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