好逸恶劳

好逸惡勞

hàoyì-wùláo

idiom #65,051

Meanings

1 to love ease and hate work
2 lazy and work-shy

Characters

Examples

他好逸恶劳，难怪一事无成。

Tā hàoyìwùláo, nánguài yíshìwúchéng.

He shuns work — no wonder he's achieved nothing.

好逸恶劳的人很难成功。

Hàoyìwùláo de rén hěn nán chénggōng.

Work-shy people rarely succeed.

Tips

mistakes

好 here reads hào (4th tone, 'to like'), not hǎo (3rd tone, 'good'). 恶 here reads wù ('to hate'), not è ('evil'). Two tone traps in one idiom.

Stroke Order

好 hǎo

逸 yì

恶 è

劳 láo