tiếc đứt ruột
Regret that tears the gut — remorse with physical symptoms.
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tiến thoái lưỡng nan
it's difficult either to advance or to retreat.
tiếng lành đồn xa, tiếng giữ đồn ba ngày đàng
Good news travels far; bad news travels three days' road faster — reputation's two speeds.
tiếng tơ đồng
The voice of silk and bronze — the sound of stringed music; an old name for the zither's song.
tiền chì hai mặt
Two-faced as a lead coin — brazenness stamped on both sides.
tiền gạo thì của mẹ cha, cái nghiên, cái bút thật là của em
Rice and money are mother's and father's; the inkstone and brush are truly mine — the scholar-child's declaration of estate.
tiền hung hậu kiết
Fierce at first, kind at last — the storm that clears into a good ending.
tiền hậu bất nhất
Before and after never matching — a story, or a person, inconsistent with itself.
tiền làng Đọc, thóc làng Nhữ, chữ làng Chằm
Money in Đọc, rice in Nhữ, letters in Chằm — three villages, three forms of wealth.
tiền mất tật mang
wasting money in something potentially devious in hope of a return but only ends up in a worse off state
tiền nào của đó
Close to the English saying: “If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.”.
tiền nằm lãi chạy
Money lies still, interest runs — capital asleep while its offspring sprint.
tiền phú hậu bần
First rich, later poor — fortunes, like some builds, front-loaded.
tiền quân hiệu lực
Front-line service to redeem a fault — sent ahead into battle to earn back one's name.
tiền rừng bạc bể
Forest of money, sea of silver — wealth in landscape units.
tiền thầy bỏ túi
The master's fee goes straight in the pocket — paid regardless of the cure.
tiền trao cháo múc
rice congee upon payment
tiền trao ra gà bắt lấy
Cash across, chicken in hand — payment and goods exchanged in the same motion, credit extended to no one.
tiền tài nhân nghĩa tận
When money runs out, kindness and duty end — the friendships that were denominated in cash expire with it.
tiền tài như phấn thổ, nhơn ngãi tự thiên kim
Money is powdered earth; decency is a thousand gold — the exchange rate the market never posts.
tiền tấn hậu kế
The front advances, the rear presses on — as old bamboo falls, shoots rise; the column never runs out of people.
tiền ở trong nhà tiền chửa, tiền ra khỏi cửa tiền đẻ
Money kept home is money pregnant; money out the door is money giving birth — capital multiplies only in circulation.
tiểu nhơn đắc chí
The small man got his wish — petty ambition is soonest satisfied, and insufferable after.
tiểu sự bất nhẫn tắc loạn đại mưu
Small things unborne wreck great designs — the grand plan dies of a petty flare.
tiểu thuyền bất kham trọng tải
A small boat can't bear heavy cargo — capacity is a hull; load past it and sink.
tks
Borrowed “thanks” — thank you, keyboard-sized.
to đầu mà dại
Big-headed and still foolish — grown in size, not in sense.
to6
Toxic — a coded respelling of the English word, with the digit 6 standing in for the "-xic" ending; said of poisonous people, relationships, or vibes, partly to slip past content filters.
toàn tâm toàn ý
with all of one's heart; completely dedicated
trai chê vợ như của đổ xuống sông, gái chê chồng của một mà hai
A man jilting his bride loses goods down the river; a bride jilting her groom repays it double — the old betrothal penalty table.
trai khôn tìm vợ chợ đông Gái khôn tìm chồng giữa chốn ba quân
A wise man picks his wife in the crowded market; a wise woman picks her husband amid the ranks of soldiers — choose where character shows.
trai mà chi, gái mà chi Sinh ra có nghĩa có nghì là hơn Sinh con ai nỡ sinh lòng Sinh con ai chẳng vun trồng cho con
What matters boy, what matters girl — a child of duty and gratitude is the better birth — the verse against preferring sons.
trai tài gái sắc
Talented men and beautiful women — the classical matched pair; each sex graded on its old currency.
trang mô tác dạng
Striking poses and arranging appearances — performance in place of substance.
trc
Texting shortcut for “trước” — before / first. “đi trc nha” = heading out first.
tre già măng mọc
when bamboos grow old, young shoots spring up
tre khóc măng
The bamboo weeps for the shoot — a parent burying a child; grief in the wrong order.
tre non dễ uốn
Young bamboo bends easily — training is a property of greenness.
treo đầu dê, bán thịt chó
To advertise one thing but deliver another — deceptive marketing or bait-and-switch.
tri gian bất tố
Knowing the crime and not reporting — concealment convicted as complicity.
tri túc thường túc, chung thân bất nhục
Know sufficiency and be always sufficient — a life unhumiliated to its end.
tri tử mạc nhược phụ
No one knows the child like the father — parenthood is the longest observation.
triêu xan dạ túc
Breakfast at dawn, lodging at dusk — the traveler's steady rhythm of road and rest.
triều tam mộ tứ
Three at dawn and four at dusk — the monkey-keeper's shuffle; the same total, resold as a concession.
trong cái rủi có cái may
every cloud has a silver lining
trong hai phút nữa
... in two minutes.
trong mười lăm phút nữa
... in fifteen minutes.
trong một phút nữa
... in a minute.
trong một tiếng nữa
... in an hour.
trong nhà chửa tỏ, ngoài ngõ đã biết
Unclear inside the house, already known out in the lane — the household's secrets commute faster than its members.
trong nửa tiếng nữa
... in half an hour.
trong đom-đóm, ngoài bó đuốc
A firefly indoors, a torch outdoors — glow saved for the audience, dark kept for the family.
trong đầm gì đẹp bằng sen, lá xanh bông trắng lại chen nhị vàng. Nhị vàng bông trắng lá xanh, gần bùn mà chẳng hôi tanh mùi bùn
What in the marsh is lovelier than the lotus — green leaf, white bloom, gold stamens — near the mud yet never smelling of mud — Vietnam's emblem of integrity.
trong ấm ngoài êm
Warm within, calm without — the well-run household's climate report.
trung ngôn nghịch nhỉ
Honest words offend the ear — counsel's truest note is the one that grates.
trung quân ái quốc
to be loyal to the monarch and love the country; loyalty to the monarch and love for the country
trung thần bất húy tử, húy tử bất trung thần
The loyal fear no death; the death-fearing are not loyal — allegiance is priced in exactly one currency.
trung tâm thông tin du lịch
tourist information office
truyền đời báo danh
Announce it down the generations — a standing threat: obey, or the punishment will find you.
trách ai tính chuyện đa đoan, đã hái được mận lại toan bẻ đào
Blame the one who schemed too widely — plum already picked, and reaching to snap the peach besides.