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吃里爬外

chī lǐ pá wài

4-character word Traditional 吃裡爬外

What 吃里爬外 means

1. variant of {吃里扒外|chī lǐ pá wài}

The characters in 吃里爬外

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 里lǐlining; interior; inside
• 爬páto crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
• 外wàioutside; in addition; foreign

Sounds the same

Read chī lǐ pá wài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吃里扒外(idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from…