吃大鍋飯

- eating from the same pot -- getting an equal share regardless of the work done; eat from the “big pot” [“communal pot”; “same big mess pot”]; eat from the public cauldron; eat in the canteen the same as everyone else; Everybody eats from the same pot.; “share food from the same big pot” regardless of whether people do good or shoddy work; tendencies towards equalitarianism among enterprises