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食碗面反碗底. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
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Chinese
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eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
bowl; cup
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face; side; surface face; side; surface; aspect; top |
wrong side out or up; anti-
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bowl; cup
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background; bottom; base background; bottom; base; (possessive part.); (subor. part.) |
| trad. (食碗面反碗底)
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食
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碗
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面
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反
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碗
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底
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| simp. #(食碗面反碗底)
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食
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碗
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面
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反
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碗
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底
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Pronunciation
Idiom
食碗面反碗底
- (Cantonese) to be ungrateful; to bite the hand that feeds one
呢啲噉嘅人，你使同佢客氣嘅咩？佢兩仔爺都係一樣人！食碗面反碗底，當初佢點樣帶起你爸爸發達，點知發咗達，調轉槍頭就食咗你！ [Cantonese, trad.]
呢啲噉嘅人，你使同佢客气嘅咩？佢两仔爷都系一样人！食碗面反碗底，当初佢点样带起你爸爸发达，点知发咗达，调转枪头就食咗你！ [Cantonese, simp.]- From: 1964, Under Hong Kong's Roof (spoken by Ng Cho-fan)
- ni1 di1 gam2 ge3 jan4, nei5 sai2 tung4 keoi5 haak3 hei3 ge3 me1? keoi5 loeng5 zai2 je4 dou1 hai6 jat1 joeng6 jan4! sik6 wun2 min6-2 faan2 wun2 dai2, dong1 co1 keoi5 dim2 joeng6-2 daai3 hei2 nei5 baa1-4 baa1 faat3 daat6, dim2 zi1 faat3 zo2 daat6, diu6 zyun3 coeng1 tau4 zau6 sik6 zo2 nei5!
- No need to be polite to this kind of people! They are the same kind of person, both the father and the son! They bit the hand that fed them! At first, they made your father become rich, but after that they backstabbed you!
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
吃裡扒外 (“to live off someone while helping others; to repay a kindness by stabbing someone in the back”)