Cantonese Dictionary

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食硬你
Cantonese
to be sure; must win
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食碗面，反碗底
Mandarin: shi2 wan3 mian4 , fan3 wan3 di3
to return one's kindess with ingratitude and betrayal
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食碗面，反碗底
Cantonese
(idiom) to repay kindness with ingratitude; to betray a friend
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食碗面反碗底
Mandarin: shi2 wan3 mian4 fan3 wan3 di3
to stab someone in the back; to describe someone who is ungrateful and betrays those who have helped him | her
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食碗麵反碗底
Mandarin: shi2 wan3 mian4 fan3 wan3 di3
Simplified: 食碗面反碗底
to return one's kindess with ingratitude and betrayal
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食神
Mandarin: shi2 shen2
a gourmet
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食穀種
Mandarin: shi2 gu3 zhong3
Simplified: 食谷种
(slang) to live off one's savings when in a desperate situation with no income; to rest on one's laurels
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食粥
Mandarin: shi2 zhou1
to eat rice porridge | congee
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食粥食飯
Cantonese
could be good or could be bad (lit., "whether we eat porridge or rice...")
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食粥食飯
Mandarin: shi2 zhou1 shi2 fan4
Simplified: 食粥食饭
(literally: whether one eats porridge or rice); whether good or bad; whether success or failure
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食糊
Mandarin: shi2 hu2
term used while playing majong where the moment a person manages to get the right combination and win the game
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食糖
Mandarin: shi2 tang2
having sweets or candies (spoken)
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食糖
Cantonese
[1] to eat sweets (U.S.: candy) [2] (slang - not mainstream) to take drugs
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食糖水
Mandarin: shi2 tang2 shui3
to have sweet dessert soup; to go to an hourly hotel for sex
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食素嘅人
Cantonese
a vegetarian
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食經
Mandarin: shi2 jing1
Simplified: 食经
a 'food bible'
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食肆
Mandarin: shi2 si4
restaurant (all types of)
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食肉獸
Mandarin: shi2 rou4 shou4
carnivore; meat-eating animal
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食肉生物
Mandarin: shi2 rou4 sheng1 wu4
carnivores
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食胡
Mandarin: shi2 hu2
a term used when someone manage to get the right combination to win a mahjong game
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食腦
Mandarin: shi2 nao3
Simplified: 食脑
smart (spoken)
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食自己
Mandarin: shi2 zi4 ji3
on one's own
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食草
Mandarin: shi2cao3
to smoke weed [colloquial]
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食蓮子羮
Mandarin: shi2 lian2zi3 geng1
Simplified: 食莲子羮
to be shot dead by a bullet [colloquial]
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食蓮子羹
Mandarin: shi2 lian2 zi3 geng1
Simplified: 食莲子羹
to be shot; to be executed by shooting
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食蕉
Mandarin: shi2 jiao1
to eat banana; can also be used in a vulgar sense, especially when swearing at someone, implying to perform fellatio or to eat shit
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食藥
Mandarin: shi2 yao4
Simplified: 食药
having medicine (spoken)
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食蝦轆
Cantonese
saying the wrong script while acting
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食螺絲
Cantonese
to speak indistinctly; to mumble
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食螺螄
Mandarin: shi2 luo2 si5
Simplified: 食螺蛳
to trip over one's tongue, cannot speak properly | inarticulate (causing others to have difficulty understanding)
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