while away without purpose

do something without others' knowledge; stealthily; surreptitiously

steal; filch; burglarize; pilfer

have an extra-marital relationship

to avoid paying taxes; tax evasion

to peep

poacher (one who hunts illegally)

stealthily; furtively; covertly; secretly; on the sly | Cant. syn.: 鬼鬼鼠鼠

peeping old man

a stowaway (on a ship)

lazy (typically spoken as just 懶)

偷雞唔到蝕揸米, 偷雞唔到蝕渣米

偷雞不着蝕把米

go for wool and come home shorn; fail in one's attempt and suffer a loss as well

try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice

陪了夫人又折兵

to skimp on the job; to avoid work

to be completely trustworthy (lit., "to carry crap and not eat it")

literally: not take the shit; In fact, to describe this man as a very honest person, rigid, not flexible, not to be taken advantage of

to skive off work; to be lazy

nastier than somone who steals cats; very bad; very nasty

very bad; very nasty

to poach; hunt illegally

to steal

to steal something

be wrongly blamed for sth. one didn't do; take the blame for sb. else's misdeed

a secret laugh; laugh in one's beard; titter

stowaway

shirker

to sneak attack

to eavesdrop; to listen in surreptitiously (stealthily)

peeping tom

to do less work; to sneak away from doing work

(verb) to steal a chicken; (slang) to sneak out in order to do less work; to slack off; to not play by the rules

find some free time in one's busyness

steal a little leisure from the rush of business

to womanize; to philander; to mess around with women