giã gạo thì ốm, giã cốm thì khoẻ
Hard work leads to poverty, while easy work brings wealth
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Where will you be? Anywhere Hà Nội & the NorthHuế / Đà Nẵng & the CenterSài Gòn & the SouthOnline slang Bắc ↔ Nam words
Sayings you’ll hear in the South — distinctly Southern usage first, then nationwide staples.
Hard work leads to poverty, while easy work brings wealth
To adapt to circumstances
Fate brings people together
Fate brings people together
Dealing with one problem only creates another
Pretend to be respectful to someone's face
Pretend to be mysterious or supernatural
To partially conceal something
Preserve the good aspects of something even if it has flaws
To harm oneself while trying to harm someone else
When one thing fails, another takes its place
A distant relative by marriage can be more troublesome than a stranger.
Kill someone to silence them
A clever person avoids unnecessary conflict
Nothing is better than what is from one's own place
Vietnamese proverb; English definition pending editorial review.
Something or someone that brings unexpected trouble or chaos
A woman with a child is stable and secure
A wife's efforts will be reciprocated by her husband
A straightforward and honest person
A woman having multiple romantic partners
A wife who is obedient to her husband will be pampered and have a happy family
To work hard but receive no benefit
Many small contributions combine to create something significant
What's lost is gone forever
To be affected by someone else's wrongdoing
To nod excessively in agreement
A weak or insignificant person can cause great damage
People with the same bad habits or behaviors gather together
to impose a false label
To try hard to do something useless
To directly and explicitly mention someone's name