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吃别人嚼过的馍不香

chī bié rén jiáo guò de mó bù xiāng

9-character word Traditional 吃別人嚼過的饃不香

What 吃别人嚼过的馍不香 means

1. lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)
2. fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first

The characters in 吃别人嚼过的馍不香

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…
• 人rénperson; people
• 嚼jiáoto chew; also pr. jué
• 过guòto cross; to go over; to pass (time)
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…
• 馍mósmall loaf of steamed bread
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 香xiāngfragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic