mồng ba ăn dốn, mồng bốn ngồi không
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Meaning · English
Spend all on the third day and have nothing left on the fourth
Literally: third morning eat extravagantly, fourth morning sit idle
Examples
Anh ấy kiếm được nhiều tiền nhưng mồng ba ăn dốn, mồng bốn ngồi khôngHe earned a lot of money but spent it all on the third day and had nothing left on the fourth
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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 “mồng ba ăn dốn, mồng bốn ngồi không” mean?
Spend all on the third day and have nothing left on the fourth Literally: third morning eat extravagantly, fourth morning sit idle
Is “mồng ba ăn dốn, mồng bốn ngồi không” formal or informal?
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