不听老人言，吃亏在眼前

bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián

释义

1. (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

不听老人言，吃亏在眼前 的构成词

• 不 bù: no; not so
• 人 rén: person; people
• 前 qián: front
• 吃 chī: to eat
• 吃亏 chī kuī: to suffer losses
• 听 yǐn: smile (archaic)
• 在 zài: to exist; to be alive
• 眼 yǎn: eye
• 眼前 yǎn qián: before one's eyes
• 老人 lǎo rén: the elderly
• 听 tīng: to listen to; to hear
• 亏 kuī: deficiency
• 在眼前 zài yǎn qián: now
• 言 yán: words
• 老 lǎo: 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