蘿蔔招聘
Chinese
radish; turnip to invite applications for a job; to recruit; to advertise a position trad. (蘿蔔招聘) 蘿蔔 招聘 simp. (萝卜招聘) 萝卜 招聘 Literally: “radish recruitment”.
Etymology
A reference to the idiom 一個蘿蔔一個坑/一个萝卜一个坑 (yī gè luóbo yī gè kēng), “there is a pit for every radish”.
Pronunciation
Noun
蘿蔔招聘
- (figuratively, neologism, slang) recruitment designed to catch a particular candidate