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anh về học lấy chữ hương, chín trăng em đợi, mười thu em chờ

Go master your letters, love — nine moons I'll wait, ten autumns I'll stay — the sweetheart's pledge to the studying beloved.

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anh yêu em

I love you (man to woman)

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anh đi anh nhớ quê nhà, nhớ canh rau muống, nhớ cà dầm tương. Nhớ ai dãi nắng dầm sương, nhớ ai tát nước bên đường hôm nao

Away, I miss my village home — the water-spinach soup, the eggplant in fermented sauce, the one sun-baked and dew-soaked, bailing water by the road — homesickness itemized in humble things.

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anh-hùng gặp phúc

The hero meets his fortune — valor finally paid in luck.

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ao cá lửa thành

When the citadel burns, the fish-pond suffers — disaster spills onto bystanders.

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ao có bờ, sông có bến

Ponds have banks, rivers have landings — everything orderly keeps its bounds.

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ao cả nước sâu

A great pond runs deep — a heart or mind with more beneath than shows.

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ao sâu cá cả

Deep ponds grow big fish — great talent needs deep water to grow in.

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ao tù nước đục

A stagnant pond of murky water — a system gone still and turbid where nothing can change.

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atsm

Texting shortcut for “ảo tưởng sức mạnh” — delusionally overconfident about one’s own abilities.

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à mà thôi

'Ah— never mind' — the art of raising a thing and instantly retracting it.

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á nam á nữ

Neither quite man nor quite woman — of ambiguous appearance; an unkind label for androgyny.

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ác cái là

the risk is, the difficulty is (therefore unable to do the aforementioned thing)

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ác giả ác báo

what goes around comes around; you reap what you sow; as you sow, so shall you reap.

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ác mồm ác miệng

Vicious-mouthed — habitually saying cruel, wounding things.

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ác một cái là

synonym of ác cái là

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ác nhân sát đức

to act cruelly, brutally, without conscience

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ác nhơn tự hữu ác nhơn ma

The wicked have their own wicked demons — one bad actor is ground down by another; evil wears out evil.

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ác như hùm

extremely cruel and brutal

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ách giữa đàng

The yoke in the middle of the road — trouble lying right in one's path.

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ách giữa đàng mang qua cổ

The yoke lying mid-road, hauled onto one's own neck — trouble that was nobody's, volunteered for.

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ái nam ái nữ

having an intersex genitalia or being intersex in general

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ái nhơn như kỷ

Love others as yourself — the classical rule of measuring every act by your own wishes.

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án ba ni bát mê hồng

Om mani padme hum in Vietnamese folk recitation — the Avalokiteśvara mantra as chanted at village altars.

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án binh bất động

to temporarily stand down one's army in order to wait and see how things develop

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áo anh sứt chỉ đường tà Vợ anh chưa có, mẹ già chưa khâu

My shirt's hem thread is torn — I have no wife yet, and my old mother can no longer sew — the bachelor's artful complaint, fishing for a bride.

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áo gấm mặc đêm

A brocade robe worn at night — splendor no one is awake to see.

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áo mặc qua đầu

The shirt still goes on over the head — hierarchy holds, whatever the fashion.

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áo mặc sao qua khỏi đầu

No shirt goes on over the head — children don't overrule their parents.

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áo rách vá vai

A torn shirt patched at the shoulder — poverty worn honestly and mended with care.

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áo vắn, giũ chẳng nên dài

A short shirt can't be shaken longer — accept the measure of what you have.

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âm cực dương hồi

At the end of yin, yang returns.

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âm thịnh dương suy

having more females than males

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ân trạch như núi

Kindness weighty as a mountain — a debt of gratitude past repaying.

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âu cũng là cái liễn

It's all much the same pot — a punning shrug that what happened was bound to be so, and one may as well accept it.

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Ăn miếng trả miếng

Eat one, pay one. Tit for tat .

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ăn bơ làm biếng

Loafing and shirking — idleness practiced as a discipline.

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ăn bớt bát, nói bớt nhời

One bowl fewer at the table, one word fewer in the mouth — moderation twice over.

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ăn cho sống không phải sống mà ăn

Eat to live, don't live to eat — appetite demoted to staff, not management.

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ăn cháo đá bát

To be ungrateful — to turn against or abandon the very person who helped you.

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ăn chín uống sôi

to practice good hygiene by only consuming cooked food and boiled water

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ăn chó cả lông

Eating the dog, fur and all — appetite, or greed, that refuses no part.

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ăn chõ ngồi chẽ

Mind the steamer, sit with care — a dialect cousin of 'watch the pot as you eat, watch the direction as you sit.'

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ăn chắc mặc bền

to prioritize durability and utility over luxury or aesthetics

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ăn chẳng nên đọi, nói chẳng nên nhời

Eating short of a bowl, speaking short of a sentence — competence arriving nowhere whole.

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ăn chặn

to embezzle, pocket, or intercept money or goods that belong to others (especially by taking a cut from wages, relief funds, or payments)

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ăn có bữa lo không có bữa

Meals have their hours; worry keeps none — eating is bounded, care is boundless.

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ăn có mời, làm có khiến

Eat when invited, work when bidden — propriety waits for the summons.

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ăn có nhai, nói có nghĩ

Chew before swallowing, think before speaking — the mouth's two duties, both requiring pause.

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ăn cơm chúa, múa tối ngày

Eat the lord's rice, dance till nightfall — whoever feeds you commands your day.

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ăn cơm mắm thấm về lâu

Fish-paste rice seeps in slowly — plain fare, like plain truth, soaks deep with time.

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ăn cơm mới nói chuyện cũ

Over new rice, tell the old stories — the harvest table is where memory eats.

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ăn cơm quốc gia, thờ ma cộng sản

to eat the State's rice while worshiping the Communist spirits

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ăn cơm tập thể

Mess-hall living — the crowded, threadbare communality of dormitory rice.

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ăn cướp còn la làng

The robber crying 'thief!' loudest — the guilty party howling as the victim.

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ăn cỗ có phần

Attend the feast and a portion is yours — presence collects its share.

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ăn gửi nằm nhờ

Eating as a lodger, sleeping as a guest — a life boarded entirely on sufferance.

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ăn hành

To get wrecked, suffer, or be put through the wringer (originally gaming slang).

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ăn hả hả, trả ỷ ỷ

Borrow beaming, repay cringing — the two faces of every loan.

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ăn hết nhiều, ở hết bao nhiêu

Eating consumes plenty; dwelling consumes how much? — food is the true expense; lodging is cheap.

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