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1 to do prison time (Tw)

1 dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch

1 abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed

2 It's too late to change anything now.

1 to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances

2 to live within one's means

1 rice omelet

1 no thought for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering

2 to have no appetite

1 to eat plain rice

2 (fig.) to eat and not pay for it

3 to sponge off others

4 to freeload

1 farewell dinner party

1 to stir-fry leftover rice

2 fig. to rehash the same story

3 to serve up the same old product

1 to look for a job

1 wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing

1 set meal

1 to live off a woman

1 to live as a parasite

2 doing nothing to earn one's keep

1 to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)

1 lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom)

2 fig. to live in abject poverty

1 gimbap (Korean rice roll similar in appearance to sushi)

2 kimbap

1 (fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life

1 "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

1 secure and lucrative job