Vocabulary
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| 犯不着 犯不著 | not worthwhile | Xiehouyu |
| 兜圈子 兜圈子 | to encircle; to go around; to circle; to beat about the bush | Xiehouyu |
| 懒人 懶人 | lazy person | Xiehouyu |
| 迷迷糊糊 迷迷糊糊 | in a daze; bewildered | Xiehouyu |
| 见死不救 見死不救 | 见: see, observe, behold; perceive · 死: die; dead; death · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 救: save, rescue, relieve; help, aid | Xiehouyu |
| 一家之主 一家之主 | master of the house; head of the family | Xiehouyu |
| 心虚 心虛 | lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience | Xiehouyu |
| 混账 混賬 | shameful; absolutely disgraceful! | Xiehouyu |
| 坚不可摧 堅不可摧 | (idiom) invulnerable; indestructible; impregnable | Xiehouyu |
| 开眼界 開眼界 | to broaden one's horizons | Xiehouyu |
| 名不虚传 名不虛傳 | (idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved | Xiehouyu |
| 欺人太甚 欺人太甚 | (idiom) to bully intolerably | Xiehouyu |
| 招架不住 招架不住 | 招: beckon, summon; recruit, levy · 架: rack, stand, prop; prop up · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 住: reside, live at, dwell, lodge; stop | Xiehouyu |
| 愣头青 愣頭青 | reckless young person | Xiehouyu |
| 靠天吃饭 靠天吃飯 | 靠: lean on, trust, depend on; near · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial · 吃: eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear · 饭: cooked rice; food, meal | Xiehouyu |
| 心术不正 心術不正 | 心: heart; mind, intelligence; soul · 术: art, skill, special feat; method, technique · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 正: right, proper, correct | Xiehouyu |
| 装腔作势 裝腔作勢 | posturing; pretentious; affected | Xiehouyu |
| 惹不起 惹不起 | can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable | Xiehouyu |
| 窝里横 窩裡橫 | (coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home | Xiehouyu |
| 顺水人情 順水人情 | to do sb a favor at little cost | Xiehouyu |
| 借题发挥 借題發揮 | to use the current topic to put over one's own ideas; to use sth as a pretext to make a fuss | Xiehouyu |
| 寻开心 尋開心 | to make fun of; to seek diversion | Xiehouyu |
| 一锤子买卖 一錘子買賣 | a one-off, short-sighted deal; a one-shot, all-out attempt | Xiehouyu |
| 见利忘义 見利忘義 | (idiom) to abandon moral principles in the pursuit of profit | Xiehouyu |
| 治标不治本 治標不治本 | to treat the symptoms but not the root cause | 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 |
| 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 |
| 苦主 苦主 | (old) the family of the victim in a murder case; (Tw, HK) victim (of a crime, misfortune etc); (Tw) (coll.) person who bears the burden while others benefit | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 添乱 添亂 | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience | Colloquialism |
| 甭管 甭管 | (coll.) regardless of; no matter (where, who etc) | Colloquialism |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 添堵 添堵 | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse | Colloquialism |
| 蹭饭 蹭飯 | (coll.) to mooch a meal | Colloquialism |
| 逆天 逆天 | (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible | 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 |
| 野路子 野路子 | (coll.) unorthodox (method etc) | Colloquialism |
| 水逆 水逆 | (astrology) Mercury retrograde; (coll.) to have a period of bad luck; (TCM) water retention in the abdomen causing the vomiting of liquids as soon as one drinks | Colloquialism |
| 皮痒 皮癢 | (coll.) to need a spanking | Colloquialism |
| 码子 碼子 | (coll.) numeral; counter; chip; token; (old) ready money; cash; standard weight (used on a balance scale) | 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 |