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I want to express the meaning that someone wants to take advantage of others, but without finding appropriate words or phrases, could you help?
The situation is like that: someone who has no TV or air conditioners of his own wants to enjoy the show or the coolness in hot weather so with or without excuses he comes to the house of whoever that has this device to fufill his goal without any scrifice of his side. Some people in my place at the end of each month, when cash is running out and unable to pay the food, visit friends or relations for free meals by outstaying their welcome, but the hosts have to entertain them because they don't want to be known as inhospitable or unfriendly or stingy.
In Chinese language, my native one, there is a word 蹭 that vividly describes this practice, something like take a lift on the way,but with a more selfish or self-centered intention.
The situation is like that: someone who has no TV or air conditioners of his own wants to enjoy the show or the coolness in hot weather so with or without excuses he comes to the house of whoever that has this device to fufill his goal without any scrifice of his side. Some people in my place at the end of each month, when cash is running out and unable to pay the food, visit friends or relations for free meals by outstaying their welcome, but the hosts have to entertain them because they don't want to be known as inhospitable or unfriendly or stingy.
In Chinese language, my native one, there is a word 蹭 that vividly describes this practice, something like take a lift on the way,but with a more selfish or self-centered intention.