cha dỡ đó mẹ xó chùa
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Meaning · English
Children are spoiled by their grandparents
Literally: father removes that mother puts in the temple
Examples
Bà nội luôn chiều chuộng cháu nên người ta nói cha dỡ đó mẹ xó chùaThe grandmother always spoils her grandchild, so people say cha dỡ đó mẹ xó chùa
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
Sources & notes
Discovered via Vietnamese Wiktionary, Thể loại:Tục ngữ tiếng Việt (CC BY-SA 4.0); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ 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 “cha dỡ đó mẹ xó chùa” mean?
Children are spoiled by their grandparents Literally: father removes that mother puts in the temple
Is “cha dỡ đó mẹ xó chùa” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.