寅吃卯糧

jan4 hek3 maau5 loeng4

lit. eating away next year's food in advance · fig. to dip into the next month's check · live now, pay later

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. eating away next year's food in advance
  2. fig. to dip into the next month's check
  3. live now, pay later

Written Forms

寅吃卯糧Traditional · Main Form
寅吃卯粮Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0