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> (失業)(近)(半年)(嘅)(婉芬)(Unemployed)(nearly)(half a year)('s)(Yun Fun)Translation: Yun Fun who has been unemployed for nearly half a year.婉 means "subtle." 芬 means "fragrance." Together they form a...
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1. What does this mean?呢兩條友係一鳩踎.2. 一dam dam apparently has the same meaning as the above, have you ever heard of it?
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Quotedonal100 1. What does this mean?呢兩條友係一鳩踎.2. 一dam dam apparently has the same meaning as the above, have you ever heard of it?Never heard of 一鳩踎一擔擔[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]it means : two people...
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怕你有牙 - Afraid that you have teethI have been told that this is a Cantonese idiom, but I cannot find a reference to it anywhere. Can anyone help shed some light on this for me please?Cheers,Shano.
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一鳩踎 – Never heard before. Not listed in any of my dictionaries.一擔擔 – “birds of a feather”. Mostly used in a pejorative sense.
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From “A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang”, p.326:怕你有牙 – a sarcastic challenge to someone who is behaving in a bullying manner, “I’m really afraid of you!” (i.e. “I’m not afraid of you!”)[synonym] 怕你有毛
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Excellent. Thanks very much for that. That book looks interesting :-)
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If the original speaker didn't mean "一擔擔", then I believe he meant to say "兜踎". I do not know its word origin, but I always think of it as a reference to the posture of a beggar. It is used to...
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>If the original speaker didn't mean "一擔擔", then I believe he meant to say "兜踎". I do not know its word origin, but I always think of it as a reference to the posture of a beggar.If 兜踎 is a posture...
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First, thank you in advance for any help you can offer...I am trying to have a non-Cantonese character speak the line "the baby stays" in a piece of writing, as if he'd heard a Cantonese speaker...
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Thanks for the information, The next time I meet this person I will ask him, if what he said is related to 兜踎.
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How would one say lend a helping hand or just helping hand? According to Google Translate it is 一臂之力.
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A helping hand ~ 援助之手/ 援手To lend a helping hand ~ 伸出援手 / 助一臂之力
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QuoteScottie_Boi I guess 幫手 is out of the picture here?Or 幫緊手？幫手(v)= to help / to assist幫手(n)= helper助手(n)= assistant幫緊手(v) helping
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I thought it was more funny that 幫手 is kind of a direct translation.
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QuoteScottie_Boi I thought it was more funny that 幫手 is kind of a direct translation."helping" is an adjective in " helping hand " , the direct translation of this phrase is 幫助之手/ 援助之手援助之手 usually be...
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援手出處︰(1).伸手拉人一把以解救其困厄。语出《孟子·离娄上》：“天下溺，援之以道；嫂溺，援之以手。” 宋 苏轼 《洗玉池铭》：“援手之劳，终睨莫拾。” 清 纪昀 《阅微草堂笔记·滦阳消夏录三》：“父陷寃狱，得公一语可活。公肯援手，当不惜此身。”(2).泛指援助。《二刻拍案惊奇》卷七：“不遇援手，焉復其所。” 李大钊 《青春》：“何待他人之援手，始以遂其生者。”
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