Eat and eat

Eat and eat

A Chinese idiom, Pinyin Du à y í D à Ji á o, means eating with your mouth moving. It comes from an introduction to academic studies in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Flower: move; Yi: chin.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 29 of Liang Qichao's an introduction to academic studies in Qing Dynasty: "Gai is like the people who have been in the disaster area for a long time. They have grass roots and wood skins, frozen birds and rotten mice, and they are unwilling to eat them."