đập niêu chẳng vỡ
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Meaning · English
Achieve nothing despite great effort
Literally: hit pot but not break
Examples
Anh ấy đã cố gắng đập niêu chẳng vỡ để sửa chữa mối quan hệHe tried hard but achieved nothing in fixing the relationship
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 “đập niêu chẳng vỡ” mean?
Achieve nothing despite great effort Literally: hit pot but not break
Is “đập niêu chẳng vỡ” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.