马背上吃猪蹄，不知这把骨头扔到哪里馬背上吃豬蹄，不知這把骨頭扔到哪裡馬背上吃豬蹄，不知這把骨頭扔到哪裏

Eating pig's trotters on horseback: who knows where these bones will be thrown

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Said of a wanderer far from home who does not know where he will be buried.
Wordplay: 骨头 (gǔtou, 'bones') stands for the body, so the line also reads as 'where my body will end up'.

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Simplified: 马背上吃猪蹄，不知这把骨头扔到哪里
Traditional (Taiwan): 馬背上吃豬蹄，不知這把骨頭扔到哪裡
Traditional (Hong Kong): 馬背上吃豬蹄，不知這把骨頭扔到哪裏
Pinyin: mǎbèi shang chī zhūtí, bùzhī zhè bǎ gǔtou rēng dào nǎlǐ
Pinyin (Taiwan): mǎbèi shàng chī zhūtí, bùzhī zhè bǎ gútou rēng dào nǎlǐ
Bopomofo: ㄇㄚˇ ㄅㄟˋ ㄕㄤˋ ㄔㄓㄨㄊㄧˊ，ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄓㄜˋ ㄅㄚˇ ㄍㄨˊ ˙ㄊㄡㄖㄥㄉㄠˋ ㄋㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ

Written with HSK 6 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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