吃硬不吃軟

susceptible to force but not persuasion

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]

hard / stiff / strong / firm / resolutely / doggedly / good (quality) / able (person) / (of food) filling / substantial

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

soft / flexible