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吃屎都趕不上熱乎的
简 吃屎都赶不上热乎的 · 繁 吃屎都趕不上熱乎的Mandarin · pinyin chī shǐ dōu gǎn bu shàng rè hu de
Meanings
- (lit.) if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (saying)
- (fig.) (of a person) too slow; can't keep up
Characters in this entry
- 吃
- chī · eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
- 屎
- shǐ · excrement, shit, dung
- 都
- dōu · dū · metropolis, capital; all, the whole; elegant, refined
- 趕
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- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 上
- shàng · top; superior, highest; go up, send up
- 熱
- rè · hot; heat; fever; restless; zeal
- 乎
- hū · interrogative or exclamatory final particle
- 的
- de · possessive, adjectival suffix
- 赶
- gǎn · pursue, follow; expel, drive away
- 热
- rè · hot; heat; fever; restless; zeal
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Mandarin tones
1–3–1–3–5–4–4–5–5 · chi1 shi3 dou1 gan3 bu5 shang4 re4 hu5 de5
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