食住花生等睇戲
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
to live; to dwell; to reside to live; to dwell; to reside; to stop |
peanut | class; rank; grade class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; wait for; await; et cetera; and so on |
to watch a play or film | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (食住花生等睇戲) | 食 | 住 | 花生 | 等 | 睇戲 | |
| simp. (食住花生等睇戏) | 食 | 住 | 花生 | 等 | 睇戏 | |
| Literally: “to eat peanuts and wait for watching the show”. | ||||||
Etymology
According to The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities in Hong Kong, the idiom comes from Mr. Peanut's slogan, initially intented to promote peanuts as a side dish when watching movies.[1] The slang later used in HKGolden and spread to the other forums. Compared to get the popcorn.
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