胡吃海喝

húchīhǎihē

idiom

Meanings

1 to eat and drink gluttonously
2 to pig out
3 to go on a wild eating-and-drinking binge

Characters

recklessly / wildly

Examples

过年的时候大家胡吃海喝，几乎都长胖了。

Guònián de shíhou dàjiā húchīhǎihē, jīhū dōu zhǎng pàngle.

During the New Year holiday everyone pigged out, and almost all of them gained weight.

毕业前最后一晚，他们在酒馆胡吃海喝到天亮。

Bìyè qián zuìhòu yī wǎn, tāmen zài jiǔguǎn húchīhǎihē dào tiānliàng.

On their last night before graduation, they ate and drank wildly at the bar until dawn.

Tips

memory

胡 (hú, recklessly) + 吃 (eat) + 海 (hǎi, sea — here 'sea-sized', huge) + 喝 (drink) — 'recklessly eat, drink by the seaful'. Both 胡 and 海 boost the verbs to gluttonous scale.

Stroke Order

胡 hú

吃 chī

海 hǎi

喝 hē