Are you afraid of being fired?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
炒鱿鱼
(coll.) to fire sb
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(coll.) to fire sb
02
to sack sb
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 炒鱿鱼 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 炒鱿鱼 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I almost got fired.
At the restaurant, do not order fried squid.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 炒鱿鱼.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 炒鱿鱼.
Directly before
- 被炒鱿鱼3
- 点炒鱿鱼1
Directly after
- 炒鱿鱼了2
- 炒鱿鱼吗1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 炒鱿鱼
What does 炒鱿鱼 mean in Chinese?
炒鱿鱼 (chǎoyóuyú) means (coll.) to fire sb.
How do you pronounce 炒鱿鱼?
炒鱿鱼 is pronounced chǎoyóuyú.
Is 炒鱿鱼 an HSK word?
炒鱿鱼 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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