lặn ngòi ngoi nước
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Meaning · English
Diving the creeks and surfacing the shallows — slogging through every hardship of the road.
Literally: dive the channel, wade the water
Sources & notes
Discovered via Vietnamese Wiktionary, Thể loại:Thành ngữ tiếng Việt (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 “lặn ngòi ngoi nước” mean?
Diving the creeks and surfacing the shallows — slogging through every hardship of the road. Literally: dive the channel, wade the water
Is “lặn ngòi ngoi nước” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.