冷や飯を食う

ひやめしをくう

to depend on somebody for food and lodging

臭い飯を食う

くさいめしをくう

to go to prison, to serve a prison term, to eat foul-smelling food

同じ釜の飯を食う

おなじかまのめしをくう

to have lived together, to be close friends, to eat out of the same pot

飯を喰う

めしをくう

to devour a meal, to have a meal

冷や飯食い

ひやめしくい ひやめしぐい

hanger-on, dependent

無駄飯食い

むだめしぐい

ne'er-do-well; waster; idler; good-for-nothing

割を食う

わりをくう

to be put at a disadvantage, to get the short end of the stick

人を食う

ひとをくう

to be insolent; to be arrogant; to be impudent; to be rude

年を食う

としをくう

to grow older, to advance in age, to be very aged

泡を食う

あわをくう

to be flurried, to be confused, to lose one's head

霞を食う

かすみをくう

to live on air

糟を食う

かすをくう

to be scolded (mainly used theatrically)

芯を食う

しんをくう

to get to the heart of the matter; to get to the core

飯を盛る

めしをもる めしをさかる

to serve rice in a bowl

飯が食えない

めしがくえない

cannot make a living

飯の食い上げ

めしのくいあげ

losing the means of livelihood

道草を食う

みちくさをくう

to loiter (on the way), to waste time

風を食らう

かぜをくらう

to make a hasty escape, to flee helter-skelter

煽りを食う

あおりをくう

to suffer a blast or indirect blow, to be subject to the surplus force of an impetus