坐吃山空

lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) / fig. to spend one's money without generating any income

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 sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]

empty / air / sky / in vain

to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable