Vocabulary
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| 死到临头 死到臨頭 | Death is near at hand. (idiom) | 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 |
| 难熬 難熬 | (of pain or hardship) hard to bear | Xiehouyu |
| 横行霸道 橫行霸道 | to oppress; to rule as a despot; to tyrannize | Xiehouyu |
| 碰一鼻子灰 碰一鼻子灰 | lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt; fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff | Xiehouyu |
| 心狠手辣 心狠手辣 | (idiom) vicious; merciless | Xiehouyu |
| 拍马屁 拍馬屁 | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking | Xiehouyu |
| 费力不讨好 費力不討好 | arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding | Xiehouyu |
| 窝里横 窩裡橫 | (coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home | Xiehouyu |
| 凑数 湊數 | to serve as a stopgap; to make up a shortfall in the number of people | Xiehouyu |
| 大有作为 大有作為 | to accomplish much; to have good prospects; to have a promising future | Xiehouyu |
| 有利可图 有利可圖 | profitable | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | 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 |
| 庄稼人 莊稼人 | (coll.) farmer | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 扒拉 扒拉 | (coll.) to push lightly; to flick to one side; to get rid of | Colloquialism |
| 大娘 大娘 | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | Colloquialism |
| 娃儿 娃兒 | children (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 甭管 甭管 | (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) | Colloquialism |
| 不赖 不賴 | (coll.) not bad; good; fine | Colloquialism |
| 添堵 添堵 | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse | Colloquialism |
| 垫补 墊補 | (coll.) to cover a shortfall by using funds intended for another purpose or by borrowing some money; (coll.) to snack | Colloquialism |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 剥皮 剝皮 | to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2] | 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 |
| 宰了 宰了 | (coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 撑死 撐死 | full to the point of bursting; (coll.) at most | Colloquialism |
| 捯饬 捯飭 | (coll.) to doll up; to spruce up; to zhoosh up | Colloquialism |
| 拉扯大 拉扯大 | (coll.) to bring up; to rear; to raise | Colloquialism |
| 提溜 提溜 | (coll.) to carry; Taiwan pr. [ti2 liu5] | 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)? | |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 表面上 表面上 | outwardly; superficially; on the face of it | |
| 大伯 大伯 | husband's older brother; father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
| 铺子 鋪子 | store; shop | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 郎君 郎君 | young gentleman, husband | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 爹爹 爹爹 | daddy; granddad | |
| 姨母 姨母 | mother's sister; maternal aunt | |
| 郎中 郎中 | doctor (Chinese medicine); ancient official title; companions (respectful) | |
| 镶金 鑲金 | gilded; inlaid with gold | |
| 班主 班主 | leader of a theatrical troupe |