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一口吃个胖子

yī kǒu chī ge pàng zi

6-character word Traditional 一口吃個胖子

What 一口吃个胖子 means

1. lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb)
2. fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible
3. to be impatient for success

The characters in 一口吃个胖子

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 个gè(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
• 胖pàngfat; plump
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子