泡汤

泡湯
pàotāng
  1. (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing
  2. to dawdle; to stall
  3. (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath

CEDICT

colloquial taiwan

Entry Composition

1 泡 pào
  1. bubble; foam
  2. blister
  3. to soak; to steep; to infuse
  4. to dawdle; to loiter
  5. to pick up (a girl)
  6. to get off with (a sexual partner)
  7. classifier for occurrences of an action
  8. classifier for number of infusions
2 汤 tāng
  1. soup
  2. hot or boiling water
  3. decoction of medicinal herbs
  4. water in which sth has been boiled