cut like a knife
To sting severely, to cause a sensation of stinging, especially said of cold weather.
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cut off
To remove by cutting.
cut on
To turn on (e.g. a light, a television, etc.).
cut one
To break wind.
cut one's lucky
To leave in a hurry; to bolt.
cut round
To show off; to be performative.
cut stick
To depart clandestinely or in a hurry.
cut the cheese (US)
To pass gas.
cut to the chase
Get to the point.
cut under
To undersell or undercut; to offer a product at a lower price than someone else.
cut up shapes
To exhibit pranks or flightiness.
cut up shines
To play pranks.
cute as a bug's ear
Very cute; adorable.
cute as a speckled pup
Very cute; adorable.
cute as corn
Very cute; adorable.
cute girls doing cute things
A genre of anime and manga featuring appealing young women in fun everyday situations.
cute hoor
A shrewd scoundrel, especially in business or politics.
cute-'em-up
A shoot 'em up game with a cute, cartoonish aesthetic.
cutester
A cute person or creature.
cutie patootie
An adorable and attractive person.
cutie pie
A small hand-held radiation meter.
cutor
Clipping of prosecutor; prosecuting attorney.
cutting edge practices
Up to date or new methods.
cuzza
A meal of curry.
cyattie
A woman who is loud, obnoxious, attention-seeking, and/or promiscuous.
cyber
To engage in cybersex.
cyberbabe
An attractive woman on the Internet or in cyberspace.
cybercop
A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards.
cyberfreak
An obsessive Internet user.
cybersucker
A gullible person in cyberspace.
cycle off
To leave by means of bicycle.
cyster
A person who has ovarian cysts, especially one with polycystic ovary syndrome.
CYT
Initialism of cute young thing.
ca sĩ kiêm nhạc sĩ
singer-songwriter
cam Phù Tải, vải Thúy Lâm
Oranges of Phù Tải, lychees of Thúy Lâm — the produce map of Hải Dương pride.
camera gắn trên mũ bảo hiểm
helmet camera
canh một chửa nằm, canh năm đã dậy
First watch not yet lain down, fifth watch already risen — sleep squeezed between two darknesses.
canh điền bất kiến điểu, hòa thục điểu phi lai
No bird at the plowing, flocks at the ripening — helpers appear at harvest, never at labor.
cao bay xa chạy
Flying high and running far — talents with reach; free to soar wherever ability carries.
Cao Biền dậy non
Gao Pian's spell roused too soon — a scheme sprung before it ripened, doomed by its own haste.
cao chạy xa bay
to be long gone and nowhere to be found, especially after committing a crime
cao lễ dễ thưa
Rich offerings make easy petitions — generous gifts open official ears.
cao nhơn tất hữu cao nhơn trị
Above every master stands a master — let no one boast; higher skill always exists.
cao nấm, ấm mồ
A high mound keeps the grave warm — ancestors well honored shelter their descendants long.
cao su đi dễ khó về,
Rubber-plantation roads: easy to walk in, hard to walk out — men leave their health in the latex rows — the colonial plantation's epitaph.
cao điểu tận, lương cung tàng
The high birds gone, the fine bow is shelved — servants discarded the moment the need ends.
cao địa
upland; highland
CCQ
initialism of các cơ quan (“agencies”)
cha chài chú chóp
Elephant's head, mousetail ending — the grand start dwindling to its little finish.
cha già con mọn
An old father and a small child — care's hardest overlap: age at one end, infancy at the other.
cha hắn lú chú hắn khôn
The father a dolt, the uncle sharp — no household is issued fools throughout.
cha mẹ cú đẻ con tiên
Owl parents, fairy child — a splendid child of unpromising stock.
cha mẹ giàu con thong thả, cha mẹ nghèo con vất vả gian nan. Sớm mai lên núi đốt than, chiều về xuống biển đào hang bắt còng
Rich parents, an easy child; poor parents, a child of hardship — charcoal on the mountain at dawn, crab-holes on the shore at dusk.
cha mẹ sinh con, giời đất sinh tính
Parents make the child; heaven and earth make its temperament — the disposition arrives from a different workshop.
cha mẹ sinh con, trời sinh tính
parents may be the ones who birth their children, but it's heaven who gives them their personality
cha nào, con nấy
Like father, like son.
cha sinh không bằng mẹ dưỡng
Begetting is less than rearing — the mother who raises outranks the blood that made.
cha sinh mẹ dưỡng
Father begets, mother nurtures — the division of the first debt.
cha ăn mặn, con khát nước
The father eats salty, the child grows thirsty — one generation's excesses billed to the next.
check var
To demand or run a fact-check on someone's claim — borrowed from football's VAR video review — especially calling out inflated charity donations or lifestyle flexes with receipts.