







过屠大嚼 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to comfort oneself with imaginary satisfaction or wishful thinking when one desires something but cannot obtain it; to console oneself with false pretenses”. Literally, “pass butcher's big chew”.

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Open the tool →过屠大嚼 (guò tú dà jué) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to comfort oneself with imaginary satisfaction or wishful thinking when one desires something but cannot obtain it; to console oneself with false pretenses”.
过屠大嚼 is pronounced guò tú dà jué in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 过屠大嚼 means “pass butcher's big chew”. It is used to mean “to comfort oneself with imaginary satisfaction or wishful thinking when one desires something but cannot obtain it; to console oneself with false pretenses”.
比喻心里想而得不到手,只好用不切实际的办法来安慰自己。同“过屠门而大嚼”。