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坐吃山空
zuò chī shān kōng
What 坐吃山空 means
- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom)
- fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
The characters in 坐吃山空
- 坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc)
- 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
- 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 空kōngempty; air; sky
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