粵

敗baai6家gaa1

simp败家
baai6 gaa1bài jiā

English

  1. to squander a family fortune
  2. spending extravagantly and wasting one's family's financial resources
  3. to disgrace the family by bringing dishonor, or by bankrupting the family fortune
  4. to spend money (or valuable resources) wastefully

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 陀衰家,形容人做咗啲嘢敗壞家聲或者散盡家財
  2. 亂使錢

Examples

  • 衰仔,學人吸毒,你真係敗家!

    Bad son, how dare you take drugs! You bring shame to the whole family! ----

  • 你咁敗家㗎,啲咁貴嘅衫着一次就送俾人。

    You are so wasteful to give such pricey clothes away after wearing them just once!

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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