yêu ai thì bốc lên giời, ghét ai thì dìm xuống đất
Loved, hoisted to heaven; hated, pressed into the earth — appraisal by affection, calibrated in altitude.
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yêu cho đòn, ghét cho ăn
Love gives the rod, hate gives the treats — the old inversion: discipline is care, indulgence is neglect.
yêu hoa vin cành
Loving the flower, grip its branch — affection that takes hold of what holds the beloved.
yêu nhau cau bảy bổ ba, ghét nhau cau sáu bổ ra làm mười
In love, seven arecas split into three; in hate, six split into ten — generosity and spite, measured in betel.
yêu nhau chị em gái, rái nhau chị em dâu
Sisters love; sisters-in-law bristle — the same house, two chemistries.
yêu nhau cởi áo trao nhau, về nhà mẹ hỏi, qua cầu gió bay
In love we swapped shirts — home, mother asks: crossing the bridge, the wind took it — the beloved lie of young lovers.
yêu nhau củ ấu cũng tròn, ghét nhau thì củ bồ hòn cũng vuông
In love the spiny caltrop is round; in hate the soap-nut is square — affection redraws geometry itself.
yêu nhau lắm cắn nhau đau
The deeper the love, the sharper the bite — passion keeps teeth.
yêu nhau mấy núi cũng trèo, mấy sông cũng lội, mấy đèo cũng qua
In love, any mountain can be climbed, any river forded, any pass crossed — the anthem of determined lovers.
yêu nhau yêu cả đường đi, ghét nhau ghét cả tông chi họ hàng
Love someone and you love their very road; hate someone and you hate their whole clan — feeling annexes everything adjacent.
yêu nhiều thì ốm, ôm nhiều thì yếu
love a lot and you will get sick, hug a lot and you will get weak (alluding to STD and impotence due to overindulgence)
yêu nên tốt, ghét nên xấu
Loved, all virtues; hated, all faults — affection edits the evidence.
yêu trẻ trẻ đến nhà
Love children and children fill your house — affection is the best-attended address.
yến tước khởi tri hồng hộc chí
Do swallows and sparrows know the swan's ambition — small wings can't read a great bird's flight plan.
yếu như sên
Weak as a snail — strength in homeopathic doses.
yểu điệu thục nữ
A graceful, gentle maiden — demure elegance in the classical mold.
ý hạp tâm đầu
Minds meeting and hearts agreeing — perfectly matched in temper and intent.
ý nhạc tâm tình
Music's thought, heart's feeling — melody and emotion moving as one.
ỷ thế ỷ thần
Leaning on power, leaning on spirits — patronage temporal or supernatural, so long as it's someone else's strength.
ỷm cựu nghinh tân
Tiring of the old to greet the new — appetite's endless trade-in.
y'allself
Yourselves.
yack
A watch; to "church a YACK," to take it out of its case to avoid detection, otherwise to "christen a YACK."
yaffle
To eat.
yaffle
To eat.—Old English.
yahoo
A person of coarse or degraded habits. Derived from the use of the word by Swift.
yam
To eat.
yam
To eat. This word is used by the lowest class all over the world; by the Wapping sailor, West Indian negro, or Chinese coolie. When the fort, called the Dutch Folly, near Canton, was in course of erection by the Hollanders, under the pretence of being intended for an hospital, the Chinese observed a box containing muskets among the alleged hospital stores. "Hy-aw!" exclaimed John Chinaman, "How can sick man YAM gun?" The Dutch were surprised and massacred the same night.
yank someone's chain
to tease or trick someone
Yankee dime
a ten-cent tip, considered stingy
Yankee Doodle
The quasi national air of the United States, the doggerel words of which are said to have been written by Dr. Shuck- burgh, a surgeon in Lord Amherst's army during the French and Indian war of 1755.
yannep a time
A penny each. Costermongers say "a time" for many things. They say a "bob a time," meaning a shilling each for admission to a theatre, or any other place, or that certain articles are charged a shilling each. The context is the only clue to the exact meaning.
yannep-flatch
Three halfpence,—all the halfpence and pennies continue in the same sequence, as for instance, OWT-YANNEP-FLATCH, twopence-halfpenny.
yannigan
A rookie.
yappy
Soft, foolish; mostly applied to an over-generous person, from the fact that it originally meant one who paid for everything. YAP is back slang for pay, and often when a man is asked to pay more than he considers correct, he says, "Do you think I’m YAPPY?" do you think I’m paying mad? Thus slang begets slang.
yarbles
Testicles.
yardarm it
to hang someone or something from the yardarm of a ship
yardarm to
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
yardarm to yardarm
Completely, from one end to the other
yardbird
A chicken.
yarmouth coach
A kind of low two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse, not much unlike an Irish car.
yarmouth pye
A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annually to the king.
yarn
A long story, or tale; "a tough YARN," a tale hard to be believed; "spin a YARN," to tell a tale.—Sea.
yartz
To vomit
yatt
woman
yay-nay
"a poor YAY-NAY" fellow, one who has no conversational power, and can only answer YEA or NAY to a question.
yayness
yay; hooray
yayo
cocaine
ye
Yes, yeah.
ye gods
An expression of surprise or shock
yea and amen
Complete agreement or confirmation
yea and nay man
A quaker, a simple fellow, one who can only answer yes, or no.
yea or nay
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
yeah, yeah
used to express skepticism or impatience
year dot
a very long time ago
year in year out
All the year round, without cessation. Yellow (A.S. geolo> connected with Gr. chhros, green, and with gall, the yellowish fluid secreted by the bile). Indicating in symbolism jealousy, inconstancy, and adultery. In France the doors of traitors used to be daubed with yellow. In some countries the law ordained that Jews must be clothed in yellow, because they betrayed our Lord, hence Judas, in mediaeval pictures, is arrayed in yellow.
Year of Deputations
A.D.630, the 8th of the Hegira. If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.
yeast
To ferment.
yee
yes, yeah
yeknod
Or JERK-NOD, a donkey.
yell silently
to be extremely angry but not express it openly