chó chê mèo mửa
very bad; horrid
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chó chẳng chê chủ nghèo
A dog never scorns a poor master — loyalty without a means test.
chó có váy lĩnh
When dogs wear silk skirts — the folk calendar's date for the impossible.
chó cậy gần nhà
The dog is bold near its house — courage indexed to distance from home.
chó cậy gần nhà, gà cậy gần chuồng
The dog is brave near home, the hen near her coop — courage, fully mapped, is geography.
chó cậy nhà, gà cậy vườn
The dog trusts its house, the hen her garden — everyone is bravest on home ground.
chó cắn ma
A dog barking at ghosts — raising alarms in the empty dark.
chó cắn quanh
A dog biting in circles — quarrels that orbit without landing.
chó cứ sủa còn đoàn người cứ đi
the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
chó ghẻ có mỡ đằng đuôi
Even the mangy dog keeps fat at its tail — the shabbiest estate hides some scrap of worth.
chó giữ xương
A dog guarding its bone — possession with teeth bared.
chó gầy xấu mặt nhà nuôi
A scrawny dog shames the household — the pet's ribs tell on the master's table.
chó hở môi, răng lạnh
When the dog's lip curls back, its teeth go cold — neighbors are lips and teeth: lose one, the other freezes.
chó khô mèo lạc
Dried-out dog, strayed cat — the household in its last mangy decline.
chó ngáp phải ruồi
a dog who gets a fly in its mouth when it's yawning
chó ngồi bàn độc
A dog seated at the altar-table — unworthiness installed in the place of honor.
chó sủa là chó không cắn
Translation and English equivalent: Barking dogs seldom bite.
chó thấy thóc
A dog eyeing paddy — staring blankly at what it cannot eat; a friend gone suddenly cold-faced.
chó ăn vã mắm
Dogs gobbling straight fish-paste — a snarling free-for-all of a quarrel.
chó ăn vụng bột
The dog that raided the flour — guilt worn all over the muzzle.
chó ăn đá gà ăn sỏi
Where dogs eat stones and chickens eat gravel — a barren, punishing place where nothing will grow.
chó đen giữ mực
The black dog guards the ink — set the like to watch the like, and count nothing safe.
chó đá vẫy đuôi
A stone dog wagging its tail — flattery from what shouldn't be able to move.
chó đâu có sủa lỗ không
Dogs don't bark at an empty hole — where there's barking there was something to bark at.
chót lưỡi đầu môi
Tongue-tip and lip-edge — glib words with nothing behind them.
chôn nhau cắt rốn
where one was born; (the place) of one's birth
chùa rách có bụt vàng
A ruined temple can hold a golden Buddha — shabby walls, precious contents.
chúa vắng nhà gà mọc đuôi tôm
Master away, the chicken sprouts a shrimp's tail — absence promotes the barnyard instantly.
chúc bạn một ngày vui vẻ nhé!
Have a good day!
chúc mừng năm mới
Happy Lunar New Year!
chúc mừng sinh nhật
happy birthday!
chơi cầu lông hoặc squash
to play badminton or squash
chơi dao, có ngày đứt tay
Play with knives and the day comes you're cut — court danger long enough and it accepts.
chơi hoa cho biết mùi hoa, cầm cân cho biết cân già cân non
Handle the flower to know its scent, hold the scales to know full weight from short — experience is the only teacher.
chơi hết mình
Playing with all you've got — holding nothing back.
chơi tới bến
Partying to the last wharf — going flat-out until there's nowhere further.
chơi xuân kẻo hết xuân đi, cái già lóc thóc nó thì theo sau
Enjoy spring before spring is spent — age comes shuffling right behind.
chơn lòng đỏ da
Bitter medicine ends the illness — cure lives in what's hard to swallow.
chơn trời mặt biển
The sky's rim and the sea's face — distance without end.
chơn ướt chơn ráo
Feet still wet, feet barely dry — newly arrived and green to the place.
chưa biết mèo nào cắn mỉu nào
there's no telling which cat will end up having a bite on the other
chưa có gió, mõ đã rung
No wind yet, and the clapper's already swinging — alarm outrunning its cause.
chưa giàu đà lo ăn cướp
Not yet rich, already dreading robbers — worry hired before there's anything to guard.
chưa khảo đã xưng
Confessing before the rack is brought — blurting out what nobody had yet asked.
Chưa khỏi vòng đã cong đuôi
Don't celebrate until you are 100 % sure there is a reason to do so.
chưa ráo máu đầu
The blood on the scalp not yet dry — too newly hatched for the boast being made.
chưa thấy quan tài chưa đổ lệ
to refuse to be convinced until one is faced with the grim reality; to be tenacious, resolute or pertinacious in one's pursuit of a goal despite of obstacles or advice
Chưa đỗ ông nghè đã đe hàng tổng
Close to the English saying: “Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him.”.
chưởng qua đắc qua, chưởng đậu đắc đậu
Plant melons, harvest melons; plant beans, harvest beans — deeds return strictly after their kind.
chạy chơn không bén đất
Running with feet that never touch earth — haste at full stretch.
chạy mất dép
To flee in such a panic that you leave your sandals behind — to run for it, comically fast.
chạy rông như chó dái
Roaming like an unneutered dog — ranging restlessly all over the neighborhood.
chạy trời không khỏi nắng
Run from the sky, you won't escape the sun — no flight outruns what's owed.
chạy trời sao khỏi nắng
Run from the sky, you won't outrun the sun — what's coming will find you.
chả nên cơm cháo gì
Coming to neither rice nor porridge — effort that amounts to nothing at all.
chả ra ngô ra khoai
Neither corn nor sweet potato — coming to nothing definite; a muddle with no clear result.
chải gió gội mưa
Shy of the lamp, bashful before the fire — modesty that blushes even at light.
chải gió tắm mưa
Combed by wind, bathed by rain — a life out in the world's rough weather.
chấn thương cổ do giật mạnh
whiplash injury
chậm mà chắc
Close to the English saying: “Slowly but surely.”.