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đứng núi này trông núi nọ
Never satisfied with what you have; always thinking somewhere or something else is better.
đứt gióng nên phải tạm choàng
The basket-cord snapped, so a rope thrown round for now — the makeshift that must serve till better.
đứt ruột đứt gan
Gut-torn and liver-torn — grief that feels like being ripped apart inside.
đứt đi mà nối, sao cho bằng mối xưa
Retied, but never like the first knot — mended bonds keep their splice.
đứt đuôi con nòng nọc
Clean as a tadpole losing its tail — decisively, completely severed.
đừng nài lương giáo khác dòng, vốn đều con Lạc cháu Hồng khi xưa
Press no divide of Buddhist and Catholic — all were children of Lạc and grandchildren of Hồng before the altars differed.
d.t
A popular abbreviation of delirium tremens; sometimes written and pronounced del. trem. D.T. also often represents the Daily Telegraph.
Da Capo
(Ital.) A musical term meaning, from the beginning — that is, finish with a repetition of the first strain.
dab
An adept; a dab at any feat or exercise. Dab, quoth Dawkins, when he hit his wife on the a-se with a pound of butter.
dab
Or DABSTER, an expert person. Most probably derived from the Latin adeptus.
dabheno
A bad one, sometimes a bad market. See DOOGHENO.
dace
Two pence. Tip me a dace; lend me two pence. CANT.
dacha-saltee
Tenpence. Probably from the Lingua Franca. Modern Greek, δέκα; Italian, DIECI SOLDI, tenpence; Gipsy, DIK, ten. So also DACHA-ONE (oney), i.e., dieci uno, elevenpence.—See SALTEE.
Dad and Dave
Two figures rapidly be- coming traditional in Australian humour.
daddle
The hand; "tip us your DADDLE," i.e., shake hands.
daddles
Hands. Tip us your daddle; give me your hand. CANT.
daddy
Father. Old daddy; a familiar address to an old man. To beat daddy mammy; the first rudiments of drum beating, being the elements of the roll.
daddy
A stage manager.—Theatrical. Also the person who gives away the bride at a wedding.
Daddy Long-legs
A crane-fly, applied also to the long-legged spiders called "harvest- men.
daffy
Gin.
daffy
Gin. A term with monthly nurses, who are always extolling the virtues of Daffy’s Elixir, and who occasionally comfort themselves with a stronger medicine under Daffy’s name. Of late years the term has been altered to "soothing syrup."
dag out
To be lazy.
dagger ale
The ale of the Dagger, a low- class gambling-house m Holborn, famous in Elizabethan times for its strong drink, furmety, and meat-pies. There was another tavern of the same name in Cheapside. The exact site of neither is known.
daggers
They are at daggers drawing; i.e. at enmity, ready to fight.
dags
Feat or performance; "I’ll do your DAGS," i.e., I will do something that you cannot do. Corruption of DARINGS.
Dail Eireann
The Irish republican army was organized and carried on a violent guerrilla warfare against the military and the police. In December, 1921, negotiations were opened between the Sinn Fein leaders and the British government, and the Treaty of independence of Eire was signed.
daily grind
Routine daily work or activities
dairies
A woman’s breasts, which are also called CHARLIES.
dairy
A woman's breasts, particularly one that gives suck. She sported her dairy; she pulled out her breast.
daisy kickers
Ostlers at great inns.
daisy-cutter
A horse that trots or gallops without lifting its feet much from the ground.
daisy-kicker
The name ostlers at large inns used to give each other, now nearly obsolete. DAISY-KICKER, or GROGHAM, was likewise the cant term for a horse. The DAISY-KICKERS were sad rogues in the old posting days; frequently the landlords rented the stables to them, as the only plan to make them return a profit.
dam
Damn.
dam
A small Indian coin, mentioned in the Gentoo code of laws: hence etymologists may, if they please, derive the common expression, I do not care a dam, i.e. I do not care half a farthing for it.
damage
In the sense of recompense; "what’s the DAMAGE?" i.e., what is to pay? or actually, what is the DAMAGE to my pocket?
damber
A rascal. See DIMBER.
damme boy
A roaring, mad, blustering fellow, a scourer of the streets, or kicker up of a breeze.
damn and blast
Last.
damn by association
To be discredited due to one's connection to someone or something unpopular
damn right
used to emphasize strong agreement
damn straight
emphatically yes or absolutely true
damn the torpedoes
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
damn with faint praise
To criticize indirectly by giving insincere or lukewarm praise
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
Faced with two options, both of which have negative consequences
damned soul
A clerk in a counting house, whose sole business it is to clear or swear off merchandise at the custom-house; and who, it is said, guards against the crime of perjury, by taking a previous oath, never to swear truly on those occasions.
Damocles's Sword
Impending evil or danger. Damocles, a sycophant of Dionysms the Elder, of Syracuse, was invited by the tyrant to try the felicity he so much envied. Accepting, he was set down to a sumptuous banquet, but overhead was a sword suspended by a hair. Damocles was afraid to stir, and the banquet was a tantalizing torment to him.
Damon and Pythias
Close and loyal friends
Damon and Pythias
A type of inseparable friends. They were Syracusans of the first half of the 4th century B c. : Pythias being condemned to death by Dionysius the tyrant, obtained leave to go home to arrange his affairs after Damon had agreed to take his place and be executed should Pythias not return. Pythias being delayed, Damon was led to execution, but his friend arrived just in time to save him.
damp squib
Something that is expected to be exciting but turns out to be disappointing
damper
A luncheon, or snap before dinner: so called from its damping, or allaying, the appetite; eating and drinking, being, as the proverb wisely observes, apt to take away the appetite.
damper
A shop till; to DRAW A DAMPER, i.e., rob a till. A till is more modernly called a "lob," and stealing from tills is known as "lob-sneaking."
dance attendance
To attend someone closely, often in a flattering or obsequious manner
Dance of Death
An allegorical representa- tion of Death leading all sorts and conditions of men in a dance to the grave, originating in Germany in the 14th century as a kind of morality play, quickly becoming popular m France and England, and surviving later principally by means of pictorial art. There is a series of woodcuts, said to be by Hans Holbein (1538), representing Death dancing after all sorts of persons, beginning with Adam and Eve.
dance of the seven veils
A deliberately misleading or distracting presentation
dance on nothing
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dance on someone's grave
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
dance with the devil
To cooperate or interact with someone or something dangerous
dandelion and burdock
a type of traditional British soft drink
dander
Passion or temper; "to get one’s DANDER up," to rouse his passion.—Old, but now much used in America.