吃

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 beg

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. learn to walk before you run

lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success

see 三個和尚沒水喝|三个和尚没水喝[san1 ge4 he2 shang5 mei2 shui3 he1]

a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm

not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with

(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

to eat indiscriminately

to shock / to amaze

to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful

lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease

lit. the child who cries gets the candy (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease

to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair