được mùa lúa úa mùa cau
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Meaning · English
Having a good harvest of rice means having a bad harvest of areca nuts
Literally: good rice season, bad areca season
Examples
Năm nay được mùa lúa úa mùa cau, nông dân rất phấn khởiThis year we have a good rice harvest but a bad areca harvest, the farmers are very happy
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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 “được mùa lúa úa mùa cau” mean?
Having a good harvest of rice means having a bad harvest of areca nuts Literally: good rice season, bad areca season
Is “được mùa lúa úa mùa cau” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.