饿狗啃骨头，恨不得嚼出油来餓狗啃骨頭，恨不得嚼出油來餓狗啃骨頭，恨不得嚼出油來

a starving dog gnawing a bone: wishes it could chew grease out of it

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Describes someone greedily squeezing every bit of money or profit out of others. Critical.
Wordplay: 油 (yóu) means literally 'grease' and figuratively 'profit, easy gains'.

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Simplified: 饿狗啃骨头，恨不得嚼出油来
Traditional (Taiwan): 餓狗啃骨頭，恨不得嚼出油來
Pinyin: è gǒu kěngútou, hènbùde jiáo chū yóu lái
Bopomofo: ㄜˋ ㄍㄡˇ ㄎㄣˇ ㄍㄨˊ ˙ㄊㄡ，ㄏㄣˋ ㄅㄨˋ ˙ㄉㄜㄐㄧㄠˊ ㄔㄨㄧㄡˊ ㄌㄞˊ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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