吃人

exploitative / oppressive

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]

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

ruthless / vicious and greedy

lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted

to take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom)

sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics