ăn cơm với mắm thì ngắm về sau
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Meaning · English
Enjoy the present and worry about the future later
Literally: eat rice with fish sauce then look to the rear
Examples
Hôm nay tôi ăn cơm với mắm thì ngắm về sau, tôi sẽ lo việc khác vào mai.Today I eat rice with fish sauce then look to the rear, I will worry about other things tomorrow.
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Sources & notes
Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-01; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “ăn cơm với mắm thì ngắm về sau” mean?
Enjoy the present and worry about the future later Literally: eat rice with fish sauce then look to the rear
Is “ăn cơm với mắm thì ngắm về sau” formal or informal?
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