寅吃卯糧 — Cantonese Dictionary — Cantonese.hk

寅吃卯糧

jan4 hek3 maau5 loeng4

Mandarin: yin2 chi1 mao3 liang2

寅

jan4

T4

吃

hek3

T3

卯

maau5

T5

糧

loeng4

T4

Definitions

1 to eat next year's food; to anticipate one's income (lit., "the third terrestrial branch eats the fourth's food")

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