Vocabulary
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| 蒸蒸日上 蒸蒸日上 | becoming more prosperous with each passing day | Idiom |
| 人言可畏 人言可畏 | gossip is a fearful thing (idiom) | Idiom |
| 赴汤蹈火 赴湯蹈火 | lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom); fig. to brave any danger; to go to any lengths (for a noble cause) | Idiom |
| 原封不动 原封不動 | lit. the original seal has not been disturbed (idiom); fig. left completely unchanged; untouched; intact | Idiom |
| 旁敲侧击 旁敲側擊 | to make insinuations; to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom) | Idiom |
| 爱财如命 愛財如命 | lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom); fig. avaricious; tightfisted | Idiom |
| 临时抱佛脚 臨時抱佛腳 | lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble; doing things at the last minute; making a hasty last-minute effort | Idiom |
| 崭露头角 嶄露頭角 | to reveal outstanding talent (idiom); to stand out as conspicuously brilliant | Idiom |
| 座无虚席 座無虛席 | lit. a banquet with no empty seats; full house; capacity crowd; standing room only | Idiom |
| 烂醉如泥 爛醉如泥 | (idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered | Idiom |
| 家常便饭 家常便飯 | simple home-style meal; common occurrence; nothing out of the ordinary | Idiom |
| 棋逢对手 棋逢對手 | to be evenly matched; to meet one's match | Idiom |
| 单刀直入 單刀直入 | (idiom) to get straight to the point | Idiom |
| 拖泥带水 拖泥帶水 | (idiom) muddy and wet; (idiom) (of speech, writing etc) slovenly; sloppy; (of actions) indecisive | Idiom |
| 拱手让人 拱手讓人 | (idiom) to surrender sth without resistance | Idiom |
| 狗血淋头 狗血淋頭 | lit. to pour dog's blood on (idiom); fig. torrent of abuse | Idiom |
| 裹足不前 裹足不前 | to stand still without advancing (idiom); to hesitate and hold back | Idiom |
| 兴致勃勃 興致勃勃 | to become exhilarated (idiom); in high spirits; full of zest | Idiom |
| 明知故问 明知故問 | (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 没谱 沒譜 | to be clueless; to have no plan | Xiehouyu |
| 光棍 光棍 | gangster; hoodlum; bachelor; single man; (dialect) wise person; astute person | Xiehouyu |
| 吃不消 吃不消 | to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage | Xiehouyu |
| 自作主张 自作主張 | (idiom) to act on one's own; to decide for oneself | Xiehouyu |
| 老死不相往来 老死不相往來 | 老: old, aged; experienced · 死: die; dead; death · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 相: mutual, reciprocal, each other · 往: go, depart; past, formerly · 来: come, coming; return, returning | Xiehouyu |
| 走下坡路 走下坡路 | to go downhill; to decline; to slump | Xiehouyu |
| 双喜临门 雙喜臨門 | two simultaneous happy events in the family | Xiehouyu |
| 倚老卖老 倚老賣老 | (idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others | Xiehouyu |
| 欲擒故纵 欲擒故縱 | In order to capture, one must let loose.; to loosen the reins only to grasp them better | Xiehouyu |
| 不谋而合 不謀而合 | to agree without prior consultation; to happen to hold the same view | Xiehouyu |
| 露头 露頭 | to show one's head; to give a sign to show one's presence | Xiehouyu |
| 心里有谱 心裡有譜 | to have a plan in mind | 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 |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 同行 同行 | person of the same profession; of the same trade, occupation or industry | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 闺蜜 閨蜜 | (coll.) (a woman's) close female friend; bestie | Colloquialism |
| 泡汤 泡湯 | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath | Colloquialism |
| 傲娇 傲嬌 | (coll.) presenting as unfriendly and blunt, but warm and tender inside (loanword from Japanese "tsundere") | Colloquialism |
| 大尾巴狼 大尾巴狼 | (coll.) person who puts on an act: feigning ignorance, pretending to be solicitous, acting innocent etc | Colloquialism |
| 发神经 發神經 | (coll.) to go crazy; to lose it; demented; unhinged | Colloquialism |
| 兜底 兜底 | to provide a safety net; (coll.) to reveal; to expose (sth disreputable) | 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 | |
| 薯片 薯片 | fried potato chips | |
| 斯诺克 斯諾克 | snooker (loanword) |