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The child that doesn't cry gets no milk — needs unvoiced go unfed.
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The child that doesn't cry gets no milk — needs unvoiced go unfed.
Children are blood; grandchildren are sap — love thins by one degree each generation.
Children are debts, a spouse the karmic creditor — the family knot as a ledger of past lives.
The eye is a jewel — sight exists to sort true from false; guard it from mixing fish-eyes with pearls.
An eye that likes the look of things — attraction at first inspection.
One child, then a brood of grandchildren — the single thread that widens into a weave; a blessed house.
The mythical "other family's kid" — the flawless child every Vietnamese parent compares you against: better grades, better manners, better everything.
the apple does not fall far from the tree
A child of pedigree — if not the feathers, then the wings — lineage shows somewhere, always.
The mandarin's child becomes a mandarin; the poor man's child catches crabs all day — heredity as the old regime's whole career ladder.
Even a settling fly tips the scales — no weight is too small to decide a fine balance.
Grudging the perch yet craving the carp — appetite refusing to choose between fish.
one caterpillar spoils the broth pot
One drop of poison infects the whole of wine.
what kind of boy that...
having a water buffalo allows one to start a business
The Creator's wheel keeps turning — fortune revolves; no one stays up or down for good.
The king's child becomes king; the temple novice's child sweeps banyan leaves — station inherited, verse-form; the twin of the mandarin version.
child or grandchild of an important person, a nepo baby
Child, remember this line: night robbers are bandits; day robbers are officials — the sharpest protest verse in the language.
"Dirty content" — media built on staged outrage, humiliation, or fakery to farm engagement; the internet's junk food nobody defends.
Garbage content — low-effort, zero-value posts churned out to fill feeds; quantity with the quality removed.
Dark-clawed crab, dark-lipped woman — the folk-reader's paired warnings.
The crab has eight legs — and still walks sideways; equipment isn't direction.
(noun) words of wishes and celebration for a wonderful new year
May you have a prosperous New Year!
The cà hẩy — the hip-thrust shimmy dance move that swept Vietnamese TikTok.
Cà nhính — gleeful, wriggling excitement; delight you can't sit still through.
"Coffee?" — the one-word-plus-tag invitation that starts half of Vietnam's friendships, dates, and business deals.
File his teeth and scoop his eyes — rage at a debtor who has nothing; fury with nowhere to collect.
The water-bug stays pungent to the very end — character's last drop is the same flavor as its first.
The closer the acquaintance, the harder the squeeze — familiarity licenses the heaviest demands.
Close to the English saying: “The more, the merrier.”.
Golden boughs and jade leaves — born to nobility; a pampered child of privilege.
Plowing the field at high noon, sweat dripping like rain onto the furrows — whoever lifts a full bowl, remember: one fragrant grain, a world of bitterness — the fullest form of the farmer's-toil verse.
Sea fish and mountain birds — the far-flung and untamable; those the net was never made for.
Dried fish with roe — the impossible windfall; luck found where none could be.
A fish that never met water — a talent stranded short of its element.
Fish that refuses salt spoils; a child that refuses its mother spoils a hundred ways — guidance rejected is ruin chosen.
survival of the fittest; big fish eat little fish
birds of a feather flock together
Silver carp, all one spawning — peas in a pod, and none the better pea.
The escaped fish is always the big one — what got away grows in the telling.
Fish live by water — every creature's fortune is its element.
Fresh fish shows in the gills, a person's quality in the temples — inspection points for markets and matchmakers.
Each has their strong suit — everyone owns some corner of excellence.
(phrase) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see các, kiểu.
Mountains apart and rivers between — separated by distances hard to cross.
The stork wades the pond bank — o girl in the peach bodice, will you marry my uncle? He's fond of spirits and rice wine, thick tea and long naps; by day he wishes for rain-days, by night for one more watch of sleep — the great satirical matchmaking verse.
that which is called...
Close to the English saying: “Adversity is the mother of wisdom.”.
A needle in a cloth bundle will work its way out — no secret stays hidden forever.
the fuck is/was that?
what is this?
Close to the English saying: “Handsome is as handsome does.”.
teeth and head hair are part and parcel of a person's appearance; teeth and head hair are the most important when it comes to appearance;
Teeth and hair are the root of a person — grooming as the first chapter of character.
the quality of being egocentric as a hypothetical center of the universe
A prickly-heat spot grows into an abscess — a small fault neglected becomes a disaster.
Does the shrimp crowd the river — small presences burden no one; there is room.