食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打爛嘢
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed | (Cantonese) thing | hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not | to work; to do things | to work; to do things | to hit hard; to smack; to break to hit hard; to smack; to break; to smash | (Cantonese) thing | |||
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trad. (食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打爛嘢) | 食 | 嘢 | 唔 | 做嘢 | , | 做嘢 | 打爛 | 嘢 | |
simp. (食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打烂嘢) | 食 | 嘢 | 唔 | 做嘢 | , | 做嘢 | 打烂 | 嘢 | |
Literally: “[someone only] eats and does not do a thing; [when he actually] does things, [he] breaks things”. |
Pronunciation
Idiom
食嘢唔做嘢,做嘢打爛嘢
- (Cantonese) being idle and never doing things right
Synonyms
- 成事不足,敗事有餘/成事不足,败事有余 (chéngshì bùzú, bàishì yǒuyú)