- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom)
- fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
Characters
- 坐 (坐): surname Zuo
- 吃 (吃): to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- 山 (山): surname Shan
- 空 (空): empty; air; sky; in vain
Resources
- Wiktionary: 坐吃山空
- MDBG: 坐吃山空
- Examples with 坐吃山空 on Tatoeba
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