ở hậu lại gặp hậu
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Meaning · English
to escape one problem only to encounter another
Literally: stay behind and meet behind
Examples
Anh ấy vừa hết tiền thì lại bị mất việc, ở hậu lại gặp hậu thật.He just ran out of money and then lost his job, what a case of out of the frying pan into the fire.
AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)
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 “ở hậu lại gặp hậu” mean?
to escape one problem only to encounter another Literally: stay behind and meet behind
Is “ở hậu lại gặp hậu” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.