坐吃山空坐吃山崩zuò chī shān kōng

sit idle and eat,and in time one’s whole fortune will be used up; use up one’s resources without working;remain idle at home and eat away a whole fortune
❍ 只得这二十两银子，要团班子弄行头，是弄不起； 要想做个别的小生意，又不在行；只好坐吃山空。(《儒林外史》268)Twenty taels was too little to form another company of players,and he did not know how to start any other business; so they gradually ate their way through theirsilver.
❍ 田没得人作，她不会～？(周立波《山乡巨变》71)If he’d no one to work the land,she could only sit athome eating away his resources.
❍ 又不会种田，又不会作生意，坐吃山崩，把这些田地都弄的精光。(《儒林外史》187) He could neither till the land nor trade.He just sat at home eating until he had eaten up all his property.

• daff
• daffodil
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• dafydd ap gwilym
• dagenham
• dagestan autonomous soviet socialist republic
• dagger
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• daguerre，louis jacques mande
• dahlia
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• daily
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• dairy products