割粙仔尾

Chinese

		to harvest rice crop	tail
trad. (割粙仔尾)		割粙仔	尾
simp. #(割粙仔尾)		割粙仔	尾
alternative forms		割稻仔尾
Literally: “to cut (someone else's) ripe rice crop stalk”.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koah-tiū-á-bé / koah-tiū-á-bóe / koah-tiǔ-á-bér

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiū-á-bé
    • Tâi-lô: kuah-tiū-á-bé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koahdiu'afbea
    • IPA (Taipei): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu³³ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiū-á-bóe
    • Tâi-lô: kuah-tiū-á-bué
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koahdiu'afboea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ tiu³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ tiu²²⁻²¹ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bue⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-tiǔ-á-bér
    • Tâi-lô: kuah-tiǔ-á-bér
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kua(ʔ)⁵ tiu²² a⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bə⁵⁵⁴/

Idiom

割粙仔尾

1. (Hokkien, figurative) to reap without sowing; to live off the toil of other people
2. (Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to pull the rug out from under someone's feet to destroys someone's fate to get married

Synonyms

• (to reap without sowing): 不勞而獲／不劳而获 (bùláo'érhuò); (Hokkien) 割人的粙仔尾, 割人粙仔尾, 無煞拍／无煞拍