rẻ tiền mặt đắt tiền chịu
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Meaning · English
Something cheap to buy may be expensive to maintain
Literally: cheap in face, expensive to bear
Examples
Cái áo đó rẻ tiền mặt đắt tiền chịu vì nhanh hỏngThat shirt is cheap to buy but expensive to maintain because it gets damaged quickly
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 “rẻ tiền mặt đắt tiền chịu” mean?
Something cheap to buy may be expensive to maintain Literally: cheap in face, expensive to bear
Is “rẻ tiền mặt đắt tiền chịu” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.