何不食肉糜
何不食肉糜
hé bù shí ròu mí
lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat); fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
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- lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat)
- fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
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Related Words
人家(rén jiā)— household
→不是一家人不进一家门(bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén)— people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
→十日谈(Shí rì Tán)— Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1]
→不对盘(bù duì pán)— (of a person) objectionable
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