giai phải vợ như cò bợ giời mưa, gái phải giai như thài-lài cứt chó

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Meaning · English

A husband should be like a rooster and a wife like a hen

Literally: husband must wife like rooster waits for rain, girl must husband like thistle follows dog's feces

Examples

Vợ chồng phải hòa hợp như câu nói giai phải vợ như cò bợ giời mưa, gái phải giai như thài-lài cứt chóThe husband and wife must be harmonious like the saying goes

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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 “giai phải vợ như cò bợ giời mưa, gái phải giai như thài-lài cứt chó” mean?

A husband should be like a rooster and a wife like a hen Literally: husband must wife like rooster waits for rain, girl must husband like thistle follows dog's feces

Is “giai phải vợ như cò bợ giời mưa, gái phải giai như thài-lài cứt chó” formal or informal?

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