白過 [－过]

Jyutping baak6 gwo3
Pinyin bái guò

Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. to have wasted one's time and not accomplished anything [written and colloquial]
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 動詞
    冇​做過​有意​義​嘅​嘢​，​浪費​咗​一段​時間
    to waste time doing nothing worthwhile
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    只有几个人才明白过来了我的意思。
    只有幾個人才明白過來了我的意思。
    zhǐ yǒu jǐ ge rén cái míng bai guò lái le wǒ de yì si 。
    • Only a few people understood me.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    经我解释他才明白过来。
    經我解釋他才明白過來。
    jīng wǒ jiě shì tā cái míng bái guò lái ．
    • Not until I had explained to him did he begin to realize it.
  2. Mandarin
    还没明白过来
    還沒明白過來
    hái méi míng bai guò lai
    • still in a confused state