happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom); all take and no give
trad. 好吃懶做
Also written 好吃懶做【hào chī lǎn zuò】
Characters in this word
4好
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good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a form of address) hello
- Pinyin
- hǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 11 of 2500
吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
懒
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variant of 懶|懒[lan3]
- Pinyin
- lǎn
- Traditional
- 嬾
- Strokes
- 16
- Frequency
- 14752 of 2500
做
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to make; to produce, to write; to compose, to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc), (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc), (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for, to assume (an air or manner)
- Pinyin
- zuò
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 37 of 2500