Food is the most important thing for people, and eating is the most important thing in life, which also makes the common verb "eat" have a different position in Chinese. The essence of eating is that external things enter the body, and the body absorbs and accepts some external things. Therefore, many expressions of acceptance are expressed by "eating". Eating can make people live, so eating means relying on something to survive or benefit.

? Surprise: frightened; Surprise people

? Take a lawsuit: being charged with a crime, serving a sentence or being punished by other punishments < P >? Eat a red card: get a red card punishment

? Cann't stand it: can't stand it; Unbearable; Can't stand

? Suffer losses: suffer losses; Get hurt

? Don't eat hard or soft: it refers to the tough attitude when negotiating or dealing with problems with the other party, and nothing can make it change its attitude

? Understand thoroughly: understand thoroughly

? Eat well: deeply appreciated by the leaders or the masses, supported by others when doing things, very smooth

? To be popular: to be valued; Popular everywhere

? Eating a small stove: a metaphor for enjoying special care

? Living on one's laurels: a metaphor for living on one's original knowledge, skills or merits.

? Eat soft rice: refers to men living on women

? Relying on mountains to eat, relying on water to eat: Metaphorically speaking, what conditions exist in your place, you depend on what conditions to live.

? Black eat black: one party in illegal activities uses coercion, force and other coercive means to bully the other.

? Eating alone: a metaphor for exclusive interests.

? Eat inside and pick outside: accept the benefits of this aspect, but work hard for that aspect. Also refers to reporting your own situation? Sue the other party. Turn one's elbow outward.

? Eat dry rice: only eat without doing anything, or only eat without doing anything

When eating, you don't chew, and the whole thing is called "swallowing". The characteristic of swallowing is that food is not bitten or chewed. On the one hand, it shows that the whole food is eaten, on the other hand, it shows that the eater is in a hurry and does not argue in detail. Swallowing often produces germinal extension in these two meanings.

gulp jujube: swallow jujube whole, without chewing, without distinguishing the taste; Metaphor is to accept things without analysis and thinking.

take it all for yourself: the benefit is monopolized by one person

eat it alive: the original meaning refers to swallowing the raw and peeling it alive (shellfish), describing that human beings were still living the life of wild animals at that time; Metaphor is to accept others' experiences, theories and methods stiffly and copy them mechanically. Also refers to pulling and pulling.

whether you swallow or not depends on whether you bite or chew when you eat. These two actions are the concrete action meanings of eating this activity. They reflect the careful taste and the connotation of eating.

? Chewing on words: describes the excessive consideration of words. More refers to the dead button words without paying attention to the spiritual essence.

? Chewing: chew it carefully in your mouth to make it rotten, which is a metaphor for repeated experience; Ponder

? Chewy head: the original meaning means that food can't be chewed, and it is often compared to the room and space for repeated taste in articles and words.

? Bite more than one can chew: metaphor for work or study, too much to do well or absorb.

? Chewing and wrapping: chewing refers to eating, wrapping refers to wearing, and "chewing and wrapping" means eating and wearing.

When eating hard food or food that is not easy to eat, we often use "gnawing", such as gnawing bones, chicken paws and leftover steamed bread. So it is also extended to accomplish difficult tasks.

? Stuffing at books: studying the contents of books hard and laborious.

if you eat too fast, you may be choked, that is, the food is stuck in the throat and esophagus and it is difficult to slide down. This is very uncomfortable. This feeling is also extended to people's conversations, and the feeling that their words are blocked by the other party and they can't be said.

? Give up eating because of choking: it means that it is ridiculous to want everyone in the world not to eat because someone is choking to death. Metaphorically, something to be done is out of order or afraid of something

? Choke: "Choke" means eating and getting stuck. Choking means that a person speaks his point of view, and the other person's rebuttal blocks his words back, but also makes you speechless and depressed.

choked to death: I was choked to death by someone holding words.

China people's food culture pays attention to taste, so in the process of eating, they pay attention to the experience of taste at the first bite, which is "taste", so "taste" is often extended to the meaning of "experience, feel".

? Suffer all kinds of hardships in something. A written statement is called "prepare for hardship"

? Taste the sweetness: a certain practice makes people benefit initially.

the most important process of loving and enjoying delicious food is to taste it, and slowly taste it to realize the beauty and difference of different tastes. This action is called "tasting". Therefore, "goods" are widely extended to the comments and appreciation of all kinds of things.

? Comment: to appreciate and comment on things.

? Taste: as a noun, it refers to the style and grade of things; Being a verb refers to thinking and feeling about the connotation of things carefully.

? Comment: refers to boring people talking about women's appearance and posture at will. It is also a metaphor for being picky about the section.

the direct result of eating is "satiety", that is, the feeling that the stomach is filled with food. Therefore, in Chinese, the word full is often used as the meaning of full, full and sufficient.

? Full reading of poetry books: refers to learning a lot of poetry classics, and my mind is full of knowledge and truth.

? Feast one's eyes: describes seeing good things or beautiful scenery and satisfying the visual enjoyment.

? Weather-beaten: describes a life and struggle that has experienced a lot of long-term hardships.

When eating too much, the feeling that the stomach swells uncomfortably is "support", which seems to indicate that the stomach capacity has reached its limit. Therefore, "support" is sometimes extended to express the meaning of reaching the limit.

? Full: describes people who have not used (extra) energy in the right place or in the wrong place.

? Dare to die, starve to death and be timid: it means that bold people dare to venture and do things that ordinary people dare not do, because they dare? To do unusual things, although the failure is great, but the success is also great, and the timid people are afraid to do it, so they stand still and finally sit on their laurels

? To die: at most, it means at most, such as "this car is worth 1 thousand yuan."

if you can't eat the delicious food, you can only watch others eat it, and the result is "gluttony", which shows drooling (saliva). Therefore, in life, we often use "gluttony" or "salivation" to express what we particularly want.

? Greedy eyes: describes the feeling that the eyes see what they want, but they can't get it.

? Drooling: I'm so greedy that my mouth is dripping. Describe a very greedy look.

? Mouth watering: saliva hangs three feet long. Describe the appearance of extreme greed. Also described as very hot eyes.