chừa mùa dưa lại chẩy
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Meaning · English
To escape one problem only to encounter another
Literally: avoid the cucumber season but encounter the flooding
Examples
Anh ấy vừa thoát được việc làm thêm giờ thì lại bị ốmHe just escaped working overtime but then got sick
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 “chừa mùa dưa lại chẩy” mean?
To escape one problem only to encounter another Literally: avoid the cucumber season but encounter the flooding
Is “chừa mùa dưa lại chẩy” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.