吃哑巴亏
Traditional: 吃啞巴虧Dictionary entry
to be forced to suffer in silence
What does 吃哑巴亏 mean?
吃哑巴亏 (chī yǎ ba kuī) has the following dictionary meaning.
1to be forced to suffer in silence
2unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
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吃chīto eat; to consume · to eat at (a cafeteria etc)哑yā(onom.) sound of cawing · sound of infant learning to talk巴BāBa, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) · the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality亏kuīto lose (money); to have a deficit · to be deficient
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