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好吃懒做

好吃懶做
hàochīlǎnzuò
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 fond of eating, too lazy to work
  2. 2 gluttonous and idle; happy to consume but unwilling to contribute

Examples

他从小好吃懒做，什么本事都没学会。
Tā cóngxiǎo hàochīlǎnzuò, shénme běnshì dōu méi xuéhuì.
He's been gluttonous and idle since childhood, never picking up any real skill.
好吃懒做的人很难在社会上立足。
Hàochīlǎnzuò de rén hěn nán zài shèhuì shàng lìzú.
A person who loves to eat but won't work has a hard time getting by in society.

Tips

history
From Ling Mengchu's《初刻拍案惊奇》(late Ming): 这样好吃懒做的淫妇 — the phrase has carried its biting moralism since the late imperial vernacular novel.
mistakes
好 here is hào (to be fond of, like), not hǎo (good). 'Fond-of-eating, lazy-at-doing' — the structure is verb + object, twice.

Stroke Order

好 hǎo
吃 chī
懒 lǎn
做 zuò