lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom); fig. to complain despite being privileged; to be ungrateful for what one has been given
trad. 端起碗吃肉,放下筷子罵娘
Also written端起碗吃肉,放下筷子罵娘【duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng】
(bound form) tip; end; extremity, (bound form) aspect; facet, (bound form) upright; proper, to hold sth level with both hands; to carry, to eliminate; to wipe out
to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group
down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action
son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-