Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「食言而肥」 for your learning.
Discover the idiom 「食言而肥」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Break a promise: be dishonest. It means not keeping one’s word and only seeking to take advantage of others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí yán ér féi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik6 yin4 yi4 fei4
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