bèn mua ba đồng tẽn
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Meaning · English
Waste money on useless things
Literally: foolishly buy three coins of tin
Examples
Anh ấy bèn mua ba đồng tẽn chỉ để trang tríHe foolishly bought three coins of tin just for decoration
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
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 “bèn mua ba đồng tẽn” mean?
Waste money on useless things Literally: foolishly buy three coins of tin
Is “bèn mua ba đồng tẽn” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.