có thì ăn, không có bấm bụng mà chịu
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Meaning · English
Make do with what you have
Literally: have then eat, not have press belly to endure
Examples
Cô ấy không có tiền nhưng cô vẫn phải sống, có thì ăn, không có bấm bụng mà chịu.She had no money but she still had to live, so she made do with what she had.
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 “có thì ăn, không có bấm bụng mà chịu” mean?
Make do with what you have Literally: have then eat, not have press belly to endure
Is “có thì ăn, không có bấm bụng mà chịu” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.