ăn nằm

verb

• To be lodged, to be accommodated
  • chỗ ăn nằm tiện nghi: comfortable lodgings
• To live as man and wife, to sleep together
  • mụ đàn bà lăng loàn ấy sẵn sàng ăn nằm với bất kỳ người đàn ông nào giàu có: that termagant is ready to sleep with any rich man
  • có tin đồn rằng họ đã ăn nằm với nhau trước đám cưới: rumour has it that they have lived together as husband and wife before their wedding, rumour has it that they have slept together (set up house together) before their wedding
  • ăn chay nằm đất: to live in strict austerity (in sign of mourning or as religious observance)
  • ăn đợi nằm chờ: to cool one's heels