看人下菜碟儿
Traditional form:
看人下菜碟兒
Pinyin (reading):
kànrénxiàcàidiér
Definitions:
- (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
- not to treat everyone equally favorably
Characters:
- 看 - to look, to see; to examine, to scrutinize
- 人 - man, person; people
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 菜 - vegetables; order, dish; food
- 碟 - plate, small dish
- 儿 - son, child
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