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Examples:boiled balls of glutinous rice flour, eaten during the Lantern festival—become mildewed and worm-eaten (of books)—swell to bursting (after having eaten too much)—lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten—have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content—decay and be eaten by worms etc—Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar—choke on something eaten—hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)—you can't have your cake and eat it—lit. say grapes are sour when you can't eat them—nothing but herb soup and dry provisions eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet—eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances—lit. lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people—lit. eat without tasting the food—lit. eat from government coffers—eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb—eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)—eat and drink extravagantly—eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure—eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action—eat and drink unreasonably—eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people—Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat!—when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers—eat three square meals a day and do no work [idiom.]—lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have take it home [idiom.]— |