割粙仔尾

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Chinese

		to harvest rice crop	tail
trad. (割粙仔尾)		割粙仔	尾
simp. ^#(割粙仔尾)		割粙仔	尾
alternative forms		割稻仔尾
Literally: “to cut (someone else's) ripe rice crop stalk”.

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koah-tiū-á-bé / koah-tiū-á-bóe / koah-tiǔ-á-bér

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiū-á-bé
  - Tâi-lô: kuah-tiū-á-bé
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koahdiu'afbea
  - IPA (Taipei): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu³³ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiū-á-bóe
  - Tâi-lô: kuah-tiū-á-bué
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koahdiu'afboea
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tiu³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bue⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiǔ-á-bér
  - Tâi-lô: kuah-tiǔ-á-bér
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kua(ʔ)⁵ tiu²² a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bə⁵⁵⁴/

Idiom

割粙仔尾

(Hokkien, figurative) to reap without sowing; to live off the toil of other people
(Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to pull the rug out from under someone's feet to destroys someone's fate to get married

Synonyms

(to reap without sowing): 不勞而獲／不劳而获 (bùláo'érhuò); (Hokkien) 割人的粙仔尾, 割人粙仔尾, 無煞拍／无煞拍

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