nhà giầu ngày ăn ba bữa, nhà khó đỏ lửa ba lần

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Meaning · English

The rich eat three meals a day, the poor start a fire three times

Literally: rich house eat three meals, poor house ignite fire three times

Examples

Gia đình tôi là nhà khó đỏ lửa ba lần mỗi ngàyMy family is so poor we start a fire three times a day

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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 “nhà giầu ngày ăn ba bữa, nhà khó đỏ lửa ba lần” mean?

The rich eat three meals a day, the poor start a fire three times Literally: rich house eat three meals, poor house ignite fire three times

Is “nhà giầu ngày ăn ba bữa, nhà khó đỏ lửa ba lần” formal or informal?

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