割粙仔尾
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Chinese[edit]
to harvest rice crop | tail | ||
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trad. (割粙仔尾) | 割粙仔 | 尾 | |
simp. #(割粙仔尾) | 割粙仔 | 尾 | |
alternative forms | 割稻仔尾 | ||
Literally: “to cut (someone else's) ripe rice crop stalk”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
割粙仔尾
- (Hokkien, figurative) to reap without sowing; to live off the toil of other people
- (Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to pull the rug out from under someone's feet to destroys someone's fate to get married