Vocabulary
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| 惹不起 惹不起 | can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable | Xiehouyu |
| 蒙混过关 矇混過關 | to get away with it; to slip through; to bluff one's way out; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1] | Xiehouyu |
| 智勇双全 智勇雙全 | 智: wisdom, knowledge, intelligence · 勇: brave, courageous, fierce · 双: set of two, pair, couple; both · 全: maintain, keep whole or intact | Xiehouyu |
| 窝里横 窩裡橫 | (coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home | Xiehouyu |
| 挖墙脚 挖牆腳 | to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something | Xiehouyu |
| 揭竿而起 揭竿而起 | 揭: raise, lift up; surname · 竿: bamboo pole; penis · 而: and; and then; and yet; but · 起: rise, stand up; go up; begin | Xiehouyu |
| 花花世界 花花世界 | the teeming world; the world of sensual pleasures | Xiehouyu |
| 服服帖帖 服服帖帖 | submissive; docile; obedient | Xiehouyu |
| 白搭 白搭 | no use; no good | Xiehouyu |
| 聪明反被聪明误 聰明反被聰明誤 | (idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good | Xiehouyu |
| 灰溜溜 灰溜溜 | dull gray; gloomy; dejected; crestfallen; with one's tail between one's legs | Xiehouyu |
| 自给自足 自給自足 | self-sufficiency; autarky | Xiehouyu |
| 无理取闹 無理取鬧 | to make trouble without reason (idiom); to be deliberately provocative | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 甭管 甭管 | (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) | Colloquialism |
| 啃老 啃老 | (coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood | Colloquialism |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 啃老族 啃老族 | (coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents | Colloquialism |
| 添堵 添堵 | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse | Colloquialism |
| 撑死 撐死 | full to the point of bursting; (coll.) at most | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 犯困 犯睏 | (coll.) to get sleepy | Colloquialism |
| 归置 歸置 | (coll.) to put (things) back; to tidy up; to put in order | Colloquialism |
| 碰瓷 碰瓷 | (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to | Colloquialism |
| 不赖 不賴 | (coll.) not bad; good; fine | Colloquialism |
| 老赖 老賴 | (coll.) debt dodger | Colloquialism |
| 关你屁事 關你屁事 | (coll.) None of your goddamn business!; Mind your own business! | Colloquialism |
| 后娘 後娘 | stepmother (coll.) | Colloquialism |
| 打水漂 打水漂 | to skip stones (on water); (coll.) to squander one's money on a bad investment | Colloquialism |
| 擦屁股 擦屁股 | to wipe one’s ass; (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess | Colloquialism |
| 拉稀 拉稀 | (coll.) to have diarrhea; to shrink back; to cower | Colloquialism |
| 打小报告 打小報告 | (coll.) to tattletale; to rat on sb | Colloquialism |
| 难伺候 難伺候 | (coll.) hard to please; high-maintenance | Colloquialism |
| 死磕 死磕 | (coll.) to fight to the death | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 表面上 表面上 | outwardly; superficially; on the face of it | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 监理 監理 | to supervise; to oversee (e.g. a construction project); (of a regulatory body) to oversee; to regulate (e.g. financial institutions); supervisor | |
| 不舒服 不舒服 | unwell; feeling ill; to feel uncomfortable; uneasy | |
| 师母 師母 | term of respect for a teacher's wife | |
| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 账本 賬本 | account book | |
| 记账 記賬 | to keep accounts; bookkeeping; to charge to an account |