一啖荔枝三把火

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	eat; taste; entice (with a bait)	lychee	three	handle; (a measure word); (marker for direct-object) handle; (a measure word); (marker for direct-object); to hold; to contain; to grasp; to take hold of	fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving
simp. and trad. (一啖荔枝三把火)		一	啖	荔枝	三	把	火
Literally: “one bite of lychee [equals] three flaming torches”.

Corruption of a line in 《惠州一絕》 by Su Shi:

Jat⁶ daam⁶ lai⁶ zi¹ saam¹ baak³ fo², bat¹ ci⁴ coeng⁴ zok³ ling⁵ naam⁴ jan⁴. [Jyutping]

Daily eating three hundred lychees, I would not resist staying in Lingnan.

一啖荔枝三把火

(Cantonese, idiomatic) Describes the purported negative effects of eating lychee fruit.

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