Tiếng Việt · Idiom Attested

công giả trường

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Meaning · English

Toil of the sand-crab — labor the next wave undoes; building what the sea flattens nightly.

Literally: the sand-crab's work

Sources & notes

Discovered via Tục ngữ, cổ ngữ, gia ngôn (Huỳnh Tịnh Của, 1897; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Tục ngữ, cổ ngữ, gia ngôn (Huỳnh Tịnh Của, 1897). Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.

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What does “công giả trường” mean?

Toil of the sand-crab — labor the next wave undoes; building what the sea flattens nightly. Literally: the sand-crab's work

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