già ăn trẻ lại, gái ăn đắt chồng, nhỡ-nhỡ nhừng-nhừng, ăn được lứa đẻ thêm
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Old people eat, young people pay, wives are expensive to husbands, reluctantly they have more children
Examples
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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 “già ăn trẻ lại, gái ăn đắt chồng, nhỡ-nhỡ nhừng-nhừng, ăn được lứa đẻ thêm” mean?
Old people eat, young people pay, wives are expensive to husbands, reluctantly they have more children Literally: old eat young pay, girl eat expensive husband, reluctant-reluctant hesitate-hesitate, eat enough breed more
Is “già ăn trẻ lại, gái ăn đắt chồng, nhỡ-nhỡ nhừng-nhừng, ăn được lứa đẻ thêm” formal or informal?
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