飲飽食醉

Chinese

		drink	to eat till full; satisfied	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	intoxicated
trad. (飲飽食醉)		飲	飽	食	醉
simp. (饮饱食醉)		饮	饱	食	醉
Literally: “to be full from drinking and drunk from eating”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam² baau² sik⁶ zeoi³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam² baau² sik⁶ zeoi³
    • Yale: yám báau sihk jeui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam² baau² sik⁹ dzoey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem² bao² xig⁶ zêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm³⁵ paːu̯³⁵ sɪk̚² t͡sɵy̯³³/

Idiom

飲飽食醉

1. (Cantonese) to be satisfied after having a lot to eat and drink; to get one's fill

Usage notes

This phrase is idiomatic and is counter to expected semantics. The form *食飽飲醉／食饱饮醉, although semantically expected, is not common.