- to suffer losses
- to come to grief
- to lose out
- to get the worst of it
- to be at a disadvantage
- unfortunately
Characters
- 吃 (吃): to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- 亏 (虧): deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that...
Resources
- Wiktionary: 吃亏
- MDBG: 吃亏
- Examples with 吃亏 on Tatoeba
Examples
我天天在这里做买卖，不会让你吃亏的！