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愛便,愛鮮,愛大粒奶

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: ain3 pin1
POJ: àiⁿ-phiⁿ
Variety: chaozhou
Peng'im: ain3 cin1
POJ: àiⁿ-tshiⁿ
Variety: chaozhou
Peng'im: ain3 dua7 liab8 ni1
POJ: àiⁿ-tuā-lia̍p-ni
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

idiom: to have unrealistic expectations; to want to have one's cake and eat it too
愛便,愛鮮,愛大粒奶

3 candidate readings from Wiktionary — genuine Chaozhou colloquial form not yet confirmed by a speaker. These three readings correspond to the idiom's three clauses (愛便/愛鮮/愛大粒奶) rather than alternate literary/colloquial pronunciations of a single word; all three are attested in the source data and are kept together since they form one fixed idiom.

Usage: idiomatic

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