đàn ông một trăm lá gan, lá ở cùng vợ, lá toan cùng người
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Meaning · English
A man has a hundred liver-leaves — one leaf lives with his wife, and one is always scheming elsewhere — the anatomy of male fickleness.
Literally: man of a hundred liver lobes: a lobe with the wife, a lobe plotting abroad
Sources & notes
Discovered via Vietnamese Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.
Common questions
What does “đàn ông một trăm lá gan, lá ở cùng vợ, lá toan cùng người” mean?
A man has a hundred liver-leaves — one leaf lives with his wife, and one is always scheming elsewhere — the anatomy of male fickleness. Literally: man of a hundred liver lobes: a lobe with the wife, a lobe plotting abroad
Is “đàn ông một trăm lá gan, lá ở cùng vợ, lá toan cùng người” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.