老牛吃嫩草

Chinese

	old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	ox; cow; bull	eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer	tender; soft	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (老牛吃嫩草)	老	牛	吃	嫩	草
simp. ^#(老牛吃嫩草)	老	牛	吃	嫩	草
Literally: “old cow eating young grass”.

老牛吃嫩草

May-December relationship; to rob the cradle; a romance where one partner is significantly older than the other
另外一個老牛吃嫩草不會有好下場的原因是年齡的代溝。 [MSC, trad.]
另外一个老牛吃嫩草不会有好下场的原因是年龄的代沟。 [MSC, simp.]
Lìngwài yī ge lǎoniú chī nèncǎo bùhuì yǒu hǎo xiàchǎng de yuányīn shì niánlíng de dàigōu. [Pinyin]
Another reason why robbing the cradle end badly is because of the generation gap.

Dialectal synonyms of 老牛吃嫩草 (“to rob the cradle”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		老牛吃嫩草
Mandarin	Taiwan	老牛吃嫩草
Cantonese	Hong Kong	老牛食嫩草
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	老牛食嫩草
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	老牛食嫩草
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	老牛食嫩草
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	老牛食嫩草
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	老牛食嫩草
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	老牛食嫩草

(when the male is younger than female): (Cantonese)煲老藕

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