giàu dể ngươi, khó nói láo
The rich grow careless, the poor grow evasive — one can afford neglect, the other can't afford truth.
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giàu giờ ngọ, khó giờ mùi
Rich at noon, broke by one — fortune keeps no longer schedule than the hours.
giàu là họ khó người dâng
The rich get claimed as kin; the poor get left as strangers — genealogy follows the money.
giàu nghèo có người ta cùng mình
Rich or poor, others share the road with you — no one is wealthy alone or needy alone.
giàu người tiếng mình
Their wealth, your good name — envy nothing; guard the one asset that is yours.
giàu trẻ chớ mầng khó trẻ chớ lo
Rich young, don't gloat; poor young, don't despair — the road is long enough to reverse both.
giàu vì bạn, sang vì vợ
men tend to act rich to their friends, classy to their wives
giàu út ăn khó út chịu
The youngest inherits the feast or the famine — last in line for whichever the parents leave.
giàu đặng trung đặng hiếu, khó mất thảo mất ngay
Wealth affords loyalty and devotion; poverty costs them — filial duty has a budget line.
giá bao gồm hai bữa ăn
a rate that includes two meals
giá cao chém thấp
Price held high, offer chopped low — the hatchet raised grandly that lands where it always meant to.
giá thú bất khả luận tài
In marriage, no talk of price — bargain over a wedding and you've made it a sale.
giá áo túi cơm
A clothes-rack and a rice-sack — a person reduced to what he wears and eats; the useless well-fed.
giáng sinh vui vẻ
Merry Christmas
giáo đa thành oán
Too much correcting breeds resentment — even good counsel, over-poured, curdles.
Giêsu Maria
Expletive, used to add emphasis.
giòi trong xương giòi ra
The maggots come from inside the bone — the scandal was bred, not brought.
gió chiều nào theo chiều ấy
to follow whichever way the wind is blowing
gió mùa thu mẹ ru con ngủ Năm canh dài, mẹ thức đủ năm canh
Autumn monsoon: mother sings the child to sleep — five long watches, and she wakes through all five — the lullaby's ledger of sleepless love.
gió táp mưa sa
continuous difficulties and disaster
gió đưa cành trúc la đà, tiếng chuông Trấn Vũ, canh gà Thọ Xương Mịt mù khói tỏa ngàn sương Nhịp chày Yên Thái mặt gương Tây Hồ
Wind sways the bamboo low across Trấn Vũ's bell and Thọ Xương's rooster-watch; through mist and pounding of Yên Thái's pestles, West Lake lies a mirror — Hanoi's dawn, engraved in four lines.
gió đưa cây cải về trời, rau răm ở lại, chịu lời đắng cay
The wind bears the mustard plant to heaven; the knotweed stays behind to swallow the bitterness — the one taken, the one left to grieve.
giúp lời không ai giúp của, giúp đũa không ai giúp cơm
Words are lent freely, wealth never; chopsticks are offered, rice is not — help stops where cost begins.
giăng quầng thì cạn, giăng tán thì mưa
A haloed moon means drought; a veiled moon means rain — read tomorrow in tonight's ring.
giơ dáng dạng hình
Seal the jar's mouth — the secret stoppered; and Kiều's counsel: some things must stay corked.
giường nằm mềm hoặc giường nằm cứng
soft or hard sleeper berth
giả chết bắt quạ
Playing dead to catch the crow — the trap baited with one's own corpse.
giả lịnh giả thị
Waving hands inside a sack — gestures grand, none visible; effort without witness.
giả tỉnh giả say
Feigning sober, feigning drunk — condition adjusted to convenience.
giảo giam hậu
Held in prison awaiting the noose — condemned to strangulation after a stay of execution.
giấu như mèo giấu cứt
to put a lot of effort into hiding something bad
giấy ghi chú có keo dán
sticky notes
giấy rách phải giữ lấy lề
A torn page still keeps its margin — however poor you fall, keep your family's honor straight.
giấy trắng mực đen
in black and white
giấy trắng mực đen, làm quen thiên hạ
White paper, black ink — put it in writing and strangers can trust each other.
giầu ba họ khó ba đời
No family rich three generations, none poor three lifetimes — fortune rotates through every gate.
giầu có ba mươi tết mới hay
Wealth shows on the thirtieth of Tết — solvency's audit falls on New Year's Eve, when all debts come due.
giầu từ trong trứng giầu ra, khó tự ngã-ba khó về
Rich from inside the egg — fortune prenatal; some hatch wealthy.
giầu về bạn, sang về vợ
Rich through friends, distinguished through a wife — fortune is social before it is financial.
giầu ăn khó chịu
Weeping when hungry, laughing when full — the stomach running the face.
giầu điếc sang đui
Rich and deaf, noble and blind — rank insulating its holder from every inconvenient signal.
giận cá chém thớt
to take out one's anger on someone who was not at fault
giận hóa mất khôn
Hatred is as blind as love.
giận mắng lặng thương
The statue frets for the paste-jar, the jar for the statue — mutual dependence fretting in both directions.
giận thì đánh quạnh thì thương
Strike in anger, cherish in loneliness — the family bond swings but never severs.
giật đầu cá, vá đầu tôm
Snatching from the fish's head to patch the shrimp's — repairs funded by adjacent shortages.
giằng chẳng đứt, dứt chẳng ra
Tugging won't break it, snapping won't free it — an entanglement proof against both patience and force.
giặc pha không bằng nhà cháy
Raiders can't ruin you like your own house burning — the inside catastrophe beats the outside one.
giặc đến nhà, đàn-bà cũng đánh
When the invader reaches the house, even the women fight — the nation's line that every child learns.
giẻ-cùi tốt mã
The jay in fine feathers — plumage impeccable, substance absent.
giếng đó ếch dó
Where the well is, the frog is — the evidence lives at the scene; find the well, charge the frog.
giết chó khuyên chồng
Killing the dog to counsel the husband — the folk-tale wife's drastic object lesson; a shock staged for someone's own good.
giết gà dùng dao mổ trâu
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
giết người đền tội
Take a life, answer with your own — homicide's oldest invoice.
giỏ nhà ai quai nhà nấy
Every house's basket has its own handle — each family bears its own stamp and mold.
giỏ đựng quần áo bẩn
laundry basket
giống nhau như đúc
like two peas in a pod
giồng cây có ngày ăn quả
Plant the tree, and someday eat its fruit — patience with roots.
giời cao đất dầy
High heaven, thick earth — the immensities; what the reckless never measured.
giời có mắt
Heaven has eyes — wrongs are witnessed, whatever the courts miss.