chửa ăn đã lo đói
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Meaning · English
Worrying about future problems before present ones are solved
Literally: not yet eating but already worrying about hunger
Examples
Anh ấy chửa ăn đã lo đói, không biết tương lai sẽ ra saoHe's worrying about the future before it's even arrived, unsure of what's to come
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
Sources & notes
Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-01; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “chửa ăn đã lo đói” mean?
Worrying about future problems before present ones are solved Literally: not yet eating but already worrying about hunger
Is “chửa ăn đã lo đói” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.