胡吃海喝

húchī-hǎihē

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

HSK 4

过年的时候大家胡吃海喝，几乎都长胖了。

Guònián de shíhou dàjiā húchī-hǎihē, jīhū dōu zhǎng pàng le.

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

HSK 6

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 húchī-hǎihē dào tiānliàng.

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

Tips

memory

胡 (recklessly) + 吃 (eat) + 海 (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