Lingaku- lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom)
- fig. to complain despite being privileged
- to be ungrateful for what one has been given
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- to complain despite being privileged
This idiom is used to describe someone who is ungrateful and complains about their situation even when they are in a favorable position.
tā他zǒng shì总是bào yuàn抱怨shēng huó生活tài太jiān nán艰难，zhēn shi真是duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘。
He always complains that life is too hard, he really is ungrateful.
tā她zài在xiǎng shòu享受dài yù待遇de的tóng shí同时què却bù tíng不停de地fā láo sāo发牢骚，zhēn shi真是duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘。
She is enjoying the benefits but keeps complaining, truly ungrateful.
Generated collocations (experimental)
duān端qǐ起wǎn碗chī吃ròu肉to eat meat from one's bowlfàng xià放下kuài zi筷子mà niáng骂娘to scold one's mother after eatingyǒu有ròu肉chī吃jiù就mà骂to complain while being well-fedzuò xiǎng qí chéng坐享其成to enjoy the fruits of other's labordé Lǒng wàng Shǔ得陇望蜀to be greedy and ungratefulbào yuàn抱怨bù zhǐ不止to complain incessantlybù不zhī zú知足to be ungrateful and never satisfiedkè bó刻薄wú qíng无情to be cruel and heartlesstān dé wú yàn贪得无厌to be insatiably greedychī吃le了kuī亏bù不dǒng de懂得gǎn ēn感恩to not understand gratitude after suffering lossduì对Ēn shī恩施bù不niàn念to forget those who have been kind