một mình một chợ
Alone with the whole market — no rivals in sight: free to act, price or win however you like, because nobody else showed up.
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một mình thì giùa, chia nhau thì khó
Whole, it's plenty; shared out, it's scraps — division is where abundance goes to die.
một mũi tên trúng hai đích
two targets with one arrow
một mất một còn
describing a struggle to the last; like a struggle to the finish; all-out; life-and-death
một mặt hơn mười gói
One visit outweighs ten parcels — showing your face is the gift; packages are wrapping.
một mặt người bằng mười mặt của
One human face is worth ten faces of treasure — no property outbids a person.
một nghề cho chín còn hơn chín nghề
one trade to be chín (“well done; ripe”) is better than chín (“nine”) trades
một nghề thì kín, chín nghề thì hở
One trade holds tight; nine trades leak — mastery is watertight only undivided.
một ngày là đĩ, ba ngày là vợ
One day a harlot, three days a wife — intimacy ripens fast into obligation; nearness thickens the bond.
một ngày nên nghĩa, một chữ nên thày
One day makes the bond, one character makes the teacher — even the least instruction earns the title.
một người biết lo, bằng kho người hay làm
One who plans equals a warehouse of workers — foresight is the highest-yield labor.
một người làm nên, cả họ được nhờ
One person arrives, the whole clan is provided for — success is a communal utility.
một người làm xấu, cả bậu mang nhơ
One person's disgrace stains the whole company — a single worm and the soup-pot is poured out.
một nong tằm năm nong kén
One tray of silkworms is five trays of cocoons — every stage multiplies the work just fed into it.
một nắng hai sương
Enduring long, hard toil — usually of farmers or laborers working from before dawn to after dusk.
một nụ cười bằng mười thang thuốc bổ
Laughter is the best medicine.
một quốc gia, hai chế độ
"one country, two systems" (the principle that Hong Kong and Macau can have political and economic systems distinct from Mainland China's socialism)
một sâu bỏ cả nồi canh
One worm spoils the whole soup-pot — a single bad actor sours the lot.
một tay bế lũ con thơ Một tay giành lấy mà đưa xuống bùn Một mai cha yếu mẹ già, chén cơm ai xới, chén trà ai dâng
One arm cradling the little ones, one arm fending the world — and someday, father frail and mother old, who will heap the rice bowl, who lift the tea.
một thằng tính bằng chín thằng làm
One who plans equals nine who toil — good thinking multiplies labor; a single clear head is worth a crew of busy hands.
một trăm người bán, một vạn người mua
A hundred sellers, ten thousand buyers — demand this deep fears no unsold stall.
một vay một trả bằng nhau
Each borrowing repaid exactly even — sin is debt, and the ledger always balances.
một vốn bốn lãi
One capital, four in interest — the trader's dream margin.
một đi không trở lại
to go once and never come back; gone once and never coming back
một đêm nằm, một năm ngụ
One night's lodging, one year's debt — brief shelter, long gratitude.
một đồng một giỏ, không bỏ nghề câu
One coin and one creel, and never quit the fishing — the angler's creed of small, steady livelihood.
một đời kiện, chín đời thù
One generation's lawsuit, nine generations' feud — litigation's long half-life.
mớ bảy mớ ba
Sevenfold and threefold robes — dressed in layer upon layer of finery.
mới chuộng cũ vong
Doting on the new, forgetting the old — affection with a trade-in policy.
mỡ đấy mà húp
Fat there for the slurping — an easy pot to skim; gains left carelessly in reach.
mỡ để miệng mèo
Lard left at the cat's mouth — temptation stored inside the appetite it tempts.
mực mài tròn, son mài dài
Ink is ground in circles, vermilion in strokes — every craft by its own proper motion.
m$
Microsoft.
m. b. coat
(i.e., Mark of the Beast,) a name given to the long surtout worn by some of the clergy,—a modern Puritan form of abuse, said to have been accidentally disclosed to a High Church customer by a tailor’s orders to his foreman.
m.p
Member of the police, one of the slang titles of the Force.
m.t
Railway slang used by porters and pointsmen for empties, or empty carriages. See MOLL THOMSON’S MARK.
ma the
Richard IFs greyhound. It deserted the king and attached itself to Bolingbroke.
maat
mate; buddy
maaveh
the police.
mab
A cab, or hackney-coach.
Mabinogion Caledvwlch
There was a sword called Caladbolg) famous in Irish legend, which is thought to have meant "hard-belly," i.e. capable of consuming anything, this and the name Excalibur are probably connected.
Macaronic Latin
Dog Latin (#.v.), modern words with Latin endings, or a mixture of Latin and some modern language. From the Italian macheroni (macaroni), a mixture of coarse meal, eggs, and cheese. The law pleadings of G. Steevens, as Daniel v. Dish- clout and Bullum v. Boatum, are excellent examples.
macaronic verse
Verses in which foreign words are ludicrously distorted and jumbled together, as m Person's lines on the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon or J. A.
macbeth had the better claim
As a king Macbeth proved a very just and equitable prince, but the partisans of Malcolm got head, and succeeded in de- posing Macbeth, who was slain in 1056, at Lumphan- an. He was thane of Cromarty [Glamis] and after- wards of Moray [Cawdorj. — LARDNER: Cabinet Cyclopaedia.
maccaroni
An Italian paste made of flour and eggs. Also a fop: which name arose from a club, called the Maccaroni Club, instituted by some of the most dressy travelled gentlemen about town, who led the fashions; whence a man foppishly dressed, was supposed a member of that club, and by contraction styled a Maccaroni.
Maccy D's
McDonald's.
mace
To sponge, swindle, or beg, in a polite way: "give it him (a shopkeeper) on the MACE," i.e., obtain goods on credit and never pay for them; also termed "striking the MACE."
mace cove
A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. On the mace; to live by swindling.
maceman
Or MACER, a welcher, magsman, or general swindler; a "street-mugger."
MacFarlane's Geese
The proverb is that "MacFarlane's geese like their play better than their meat." The wild geese of Inch-Tavoe (Loch Lomond) used to be called MacFar- lantfs Geese because the MacFarlanes had a house on the island, and it is said that the geese never returned after the destruction of that house.
macha
best friend
machines
Mrs. Phillips's ware. See CUNDUM.
mackerel
A bawd: from the French maquerel. Mackerel-backed; long-backed.
Mackerel Sky
A sky dappled with detached rounded masses of white cloud, something like the markings of a mackerel.
macky
Large.
macrohard
Microsoft.
mad as a bear with a sore head
Very angry.
Mad as a March hare
Hares are unusually shy and wild in March, which is their rutting season.
mad money
Money set aside for unexpected expenses or emergencies
madam
A kept madam; a kept mistress.
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