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食得鹹魚抵得渴
  sik6 dak1 haam4 jyu4 dai2 dak1 hot3   jyutping
One must bear the consequences of one's own choice, action or stupidity
[lit] Those who eat salted fish must put up with the thirst

Mandarin: 一人做事一人當

(Note: 鹹魚 is pronounced [haam4 jyu4] without tone change here as it usually does as a standalone term.)
Idiom

Level: 4
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
食得鹹魚抵得渴

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Characters in this word:

 sik6 zi6  -  eat; food
 dak1  -  get; obtain; fit; finished; able to; must
 haam4  -  salty; pornographic; dirty
 jyu4  -  fish
 dai2  -  resist; offset; reach
 dak1  -  get; obtain; fit; finished; able to; must
 hot3  -  thirsty; eagerly
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