食言而肥 Save Sign in to save words shíyánérféi ㄕˊ ㄧㄢˊ ㄦˊ ㄈㄟˊ lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) fig. not to live up to one's promises Character by character 食(shí)eat 言(yán)words 而(ér)and 肥(féi)fat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0