mouth drooling with greed(chán xián yù dī)

mouth drooling with greed

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch á nxi á NY ù D ī, which means you are so greedy that your mouth will drip. It can be used to describe a person who is very greedy and wants to eat. It can also be used to describe a person who is very envious and eager to get good things. The language comes from Zhaohai Jiawen.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] salivating, quarreling, and [antonym] indifferent

The origin of Idioms

Liu Zongyuan's Zhaohai Jiawen in Tang Dynasty: "salivating, flashing tongue, squandering afternoon."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; used as predicate, attribute, adverbial; used to describe gluttonous appearance. Wu Erhai is thin and ready to fly. He is greedy before he goes. Song Sushi's poem "Huzhou of Jiangzhi": when the countrymen first came to Shanghai, they were greedy when they heard (the sound of selling snacks). Lu Xun's two essays on qijieting: talking about the business of lane hall in ancient and modern times. Chapter 26 of the sound of the city by Ji Wen of Qing Dynasty we are often so greedy by the sweet smell coming from there, especially when the white flowers of Begonia and apple have just given thanks, and just bear a bunch of fruit buttons the size of finger belly, the strawberry fruit is ripe, giving us a mouth watering fragrance. On both sides of the road, every 200 meters, there is a big mat shed which is open on all sides. In the mat shed, there are luxury road sacrifices, sweet and sour, hot and delicious, which make the visitors salivate. They are like enchanting advertisements, which dazzle people; they are more like a sumptuous dinner under gentle lights, which makes people salivate. Let's take eating and drinking as an example. When I was a child, I was greedy for a lot of food and tasted delicious, so I often dreamed of rich food at night. Nanqi laughs heartily: "I'm greedy. I've long wanted to arrange a time for sister Dong to cook for a few days. I'll get a pig to enter sanqingguan. Don't worry. I'll eat one by one!" on those fruits, there is a layer of white, loose and crumbling, which makes people salivate.

Idioms and allusions

During the Song Dynasty, Su Shi had a deep contact with sun Jue, the governor of Wuxing, and often wrote poems and Fu together. Su Shi wrote "presenting Huzhou opera to Shenlao" in the fifth year of Xining: "the bud of Guzhu tea is white on the teeth, and the papaya in Meixi is red on the cheek. Wu Er is thin and wants to fly. Before he goes, he says, "I'm greedy." Praise Huzhou's delicious food.

Chinese PinYin : chán xián yù dī