肉烂在锅里 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 肉爛在鍋裡 ròulànzàiguōlǐ ㄖㄡˋ ㄌㄢˋ ㄗㄞˋ ㄍㄨㄛ ㄌㄧˇ lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders Character by character 肉(ròu)meat 烂(làn)soft 在(zài)exist 锅(guō)pot 里(lǐ)lining A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0