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► 成句
  [(2)めし]  [三度の飯より好き]    meaning:  love  rank: 4
☆ うちの息子ゲームが三の飯より好きだ ⇨ My son loves games more than three meals of the day, more than anything

  [(2)めし]  [臭い飯を食う]  [coll]    meaning:  prison  rank: 4
☆ あいつは今臭い飯を食っている ⇨ He is eating stinky rice now. He is in jail now  (☛ Prisoners used to eat cheaper wheat, which has distinctive smell, instead of rice)

► 名詞
  [(2)めし]  [coll]  [男]    meaning:  meal  rank: 2
☆ この景気では飯のげだ ⇨ We cannot eat, sustain lives, under this bad economy
☆ 飯食いにこうぜ ⇨ Let’s go get something to eat  (☛ Usually only used among men)


More examples:
  • 腕立せ五百などには朝飯前だ ⇨ He can do 500 pushups before breakfast. It is a piece of cake for him
  • 一緒に御飯をべておいで! ⇨ Stay and have a meal with us!
  • 組織内や飯をわされてきた ⇨ He has been made to eat cold rice, maltreated, within the organization
  • 今御飯食べてるとこ ⇨ I’m having a meal right now
  • そろそろ昼御飯にしましょうよ ⇨ Let’s have lunch
  • 子供に御飯をべさせている ⇨ He is making his child eat, feeding his child
  • 朝御飯はくことがい ⇨ I tend to go without breakfast
  • 昼飯食いにこう ⇨ Let’s go for lunch
  • 御飯粒がほっぺたにいてるよ ⇨ You have rice on your cheek
  • 御飯をけたところに電話鳴った ⇨ The phone rang when I just started having my meal
  • 御飯を海苔いてべた ⇨ I had rice wrapped in nori, dried seaweed
  • この地域では犯罪日常茶飯事だ ⇨ Crimes are daily occurrences in this area
  • が残飯を漁っている ⇨ Cats are scavenging for discarded food
  • は御飯を掻き込んだ ⇨ He ate at a furious pace
  • 御飯もうべた? ⇨ Have you already had your meal?