寅吃卯粮 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 寅吃卯糧 yínchīmǎoliáng ㄧㄣˊ ㄔ ㄇㄠˇ ㄌㄧㄤˊ lit. eating away next year's food in advance fig. to dip into the next month's check live now, pay later Character by character 寅(yín)3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger 吃(chī)eat 卯(mǎo)mortise 粮(liáng)grain A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0