chơi dao có ngày đứt tay
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Meaning · English
Those who live by violence will die by violence
Literally: play with knife have day cut hand
Examples
Anh ấy chơi dao có ngày đứt tay vì hay đánh nhau.He will suffer the consequences of his violent behavior one day because he often gets into fights.
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 “chơi dao có ngày đứt tay” mean?
Those who live by violence will die by violence Literally: play with knife have day cut hand
Is “chơi dao có ngày đứt tay” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.