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端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘

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12-character word Traditional 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子罵娘

What 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘 means

1. lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom)
2. fig. to complain despite being privileged
3. to be ungrateful for what one has been given

The characters in 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘

• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 碗wǎnbowl; cup
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 肉ròumeat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit)
• 放fàngto put; to place; to release
• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 筷kuàichopstick
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
• 骂màto scold; to abuse; to curse
• 娘niángmother; young lady; (colloquial) effeminate