nợ lãnh là nợ mình
A guaranteed debt is your debt — co-sign and you've already begun repaying.
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nợ như chúa Chổm
to be heavily indebted
nợ tiền kiếp
Wealth like drifting cloud — here at noon, gone by evening.
nợ đồng lần
Debt that rotates — life's borrowing circle: everyone owes, everyone repays, round and round.
nứa trôi sông
Bamboo adrift downriver — the unmoored, going where the water says.
nứt đố đổ vách
to be loaded; to be filthy rich
nửa người nửa ngợm
Half person, half creature — humanity incompletely installed.
nữ sanh ngoại tộc
Daughters pass to the outer clan — the old patrilineal accounting of a girl's belonging.
nực cười châu chấu đá xe, tưởng rằng chấu ngã ai dè xe nghiêng
Laughable, the grasshopper kicking the cart — yet the grasshopper stood and the cart tipped over — the underdog verse that history kept quoting.
N or M
The answer given to the first question in the Church of England Catechism; and it means that here the person being catechized gives his or her name or names. Lat. nomen vel nomina. The abbreviation for the plural nomina was — as usual — the doubled initial (cp. "LL.D." for Doctor of Laws); and this, when printed (as it was in old Prayer Books) m black-letter and close together, $$. came to be taken for fK.
n. c
"enough said," being the initials of NUF CED. A certain theatrical manager spells, it is said, in this style.
na-na
The vulva.
na-na na-na boo-boo
a childish taunt to annoy or tease someone
nab
To catch, to seize; "NAB the rust," to take offence.—Ancient, fourteenth century. See NAP.
nabob
An Eastern prince, a retired Indian official,—hence a slang term for a capitalist. From Nawaub.
nabs
Self; my NABS, myself; his NABS, himself.—North Country Cant.
nack
To have a nack; to be ready at any thing, to have a turn-for it.
nade
A grenade.
nag
To persistently talk in a scolding manner, after the manner of Mrs. Caudle. NAGGING is supposed to be persistent, persevering, passionless scolding.
Nag's Head Consecration
On the passing of the second Act of Uniformity in Queen Elizabeth's reign (1559), fourteen bishops vacated their sees, and all the other sees, except Llandaff, were at the time vacant.
nah
No.
nail
To catch.
nail
To steal, or capture; "paid on the NAIL," i.e., paid ready money; NAILED, taken up, or caught,—probably in allusion to the practice of NAILING bad money to the counter. We say, "as dead as a door-NAIL;" most possibly because of "apt alliteration." Shakspeare has the expression in Henry IV.—
nail down
to firmly establish or settle something
nail the hammer on the head
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
nailed
Secured, fixed. He offered me a decus, and I nailed him; he offered me a crown, and I struck or fixed him.
naked ape
A human being, emphasizing their primitive or animalistic nature
nam esclop
A policeman. See ESCLOP.
namby-pamby
Particular, over-nice, effeminate. This was possibly of Pope’s invention, and first applied by him to the affected short-lined verses addressed by Ambrose Phillips to Lord Carteret’s infant children. See Johnson’s Life of Pope.
name and address
Personal details used to identify someone
name and number
Full identification of someone
name and shame
Publicly expose and criticize someone for wrongdoing
name it and claim it
To publicly declare something as one's own in order to possess or achieve it
name names
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
name not a rope in his house who hanged himself
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
name of the game
The main objective or most important aspect of a situation
name one's poison
choose one's preferred drink
names and faces
People's identities and appearances
nammow
A woman; DELO NAMMOW, an old woman.
nammus
Or NAMOUS, to be off, to get away; "let’s NAMMUS, somebody’s coming." See VAMOS.
nani
what
nannan
grandmother
nanny shop
A brothel.
nanny-shop
A disreputable house.
nantee
Not any, or "I have none." NANTEE also means "shut up!" or "leave off!" Italian, NIENTE, nothing. See DINARLY.—Lingua Franca.
nantee palaver
No conversation, i.e., hold your tongue. Very often in this sense also shortened to NANTEE only. Originally Lingua Franca, but now general.
nantucket sleigh ride
a wild or exciting experience
nanu-nanu
hello
nap
Or NAB, to take, steal, or receive; "you’ll NAP it," i.e., you will catch a beating.—North; also Old Cant.
nap nix
A person who works at his trade, and occasionally goes on the stage to act minor parts without receiving any pay. The derivation is obvious. See NAP and NIX, i.e., NICHTS.
nap one’s bib
To cry, shed tears, or carry one’s point.
nap the teaze
To be privately whipped in prison.
nape
Napalm.
napier's bones
See NAPIER. One end is sure to be bone. It won't come up to expectation. "All is not gold that glitters.
Napoleon and Napoleon III
It was badly damaged during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and on the fall of the Empire was demolished by the Communards in 1871.
Napoleon at Waterloo
His son Lionel (1808- 79) was best known by his work for Jewish emancipation. Lionel's son Nathaniel Meyer (1840-1915) was made a baron in 1885. Through the network of their continental con- nexions the Rothschilds have exerted great in- fluence in many directions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
For all his many glaring faults and ambitions, Napoleon was one of the greatest men modern civilization has produced.
Napoleon III
It is said to be the name of the workman whose clothes he wore when he contrived to escape from the fortress of Ham, in 1846.
Napoleonic Wars
It resulted in the French being driven from the Peninsula.
napoo
Finished, dead, no more, gone; non-existent.