Ăn cháo đá bát
Meaning: To be ungrateful and turn on those who helped you.
Language: Vietnamese
Literally: To eat the porridge then kick the bowl
Category: Food & Drink
Origin: Accepting a bowl of rice porridge in hard times, then kicking it away, is the Vietnamese emblem of betrayal.
More idioms — Food & Drink
- Avoir un cœur d'artichaut — To fall in love easily and often.
- To go cold turkey — To quit a habit abruptly and completely.
- To cut the mustard — To meet the required standard; to succeed.
- To chew the fat — To chat idly and at length.
- Eine Extrawurst verlangen — To expect special treatment.
- Importar un pepino — To not care in the slightest.
More Vietnamese idioms
- Nước đổ lá khoai — Advice or effort that has no effect at all; in one ear and out the other.
- Cõng rắn cắn gà nhà — To bring in an outsider who harms your own people.
- Ăn cơm nhà vác tù và hàng tổng — To do thankless public work at your own expense.
- Đứng núi này trông núi nọ — Never satisfied with what you have; the grass is always greener.
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