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坐吃山空

zuò chī shān kōng lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) / fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
Zuò surname Zuo
zuò to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of
  chī to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
  chī variant of
   Shān surname Shan
   shān mountain; hill (CL:) / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
    kōng empty / air / sky / in vain
    kòng to empty / vacant / unoccupied / space / leisure / free time
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