货问三家不吃亏

see 貨比三家不吃虧|货比三家不吃亏[huo4 bi3 san1 jia1 bu4 chi1 kui1]

goods / money / commodity / CL:個|个[ge4]

to ask / to inquire

to ask; to inquire

three / 3

see 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5]

home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately

deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...