cái vung vỡ mảnh, cái bát vỡ tan
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Meaning · English
Things that are broken cannot be made whole again
Literally: the pot shatters into pieces, the bowl shatters into fragments
Examples
Sau lời nói đó, mối quan hệ của họ trở nên như cái vung vỡ mảnh, cái bát vỡ tan.After that, their relationship became like a pot and bowl that have been broken into pieces.
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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 “cái vung vỡ mảnh, cái bát vỡ tan” mean?
Things that are broken cannot be made whole again Literally: the pot shatters into pieces, the bowl shatters into fragments
Is “cái vung vỡ mảnh, cái bát vỡ tan” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.