chất như nước cất
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Meaning · English
Cool beyond impurity — a rhyming boast: as "chất" (stylish) as distilled water is pure. The rhyme is the point.
Literally: quality like distilled water
Register: informalEra: ~2010s – present
Examples
Bộ ảnh cưới chụp ở bãi rác mà nhìn chất như nước cất.A wedding shoot at a junkyard, and it still looks impossibly cool.
Editorial example (batch 046)
Sources & notes
Discovered via slangviet.com (headword reference only; definition and example written independently for Idiomer). Retrieved 2026-08-05. Reference page: slangviet.com/phrases/chat-nhu-nuoc-cat.
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Common questions
What does “chất như nước cất” mean?
Cool beyond impurity — a rhyming boast: as "chất" (stylish) as distilled water is pure. The rhyme is the point. Literally: quality like distilled water
Is “chất như nước cất” formal or informal?
chất như nước cất is generally informal.
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