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不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
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Definitions
- 1. (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
Child Words of 不听老人言，吃亏在眼前
to listen to; to hear
to exist; to be alive
eye
to suffer losses
smile (archaic)
no; not so
now
to eat
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
person; people
before one's eyes
words
deficiency
front
the elderly