是可忍，孰不可忍
shì kě rěn, shú bù kě rěn
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If we put up with this, is there anything we would not put up with? A cry of outrage: what has happened goes too far and must not be tolerated. Formal and emphatic.
Việc này mà nhịn được thì còn việc gì không nhịn được nữa? Câu nói tỏ ý phẫn nộ: sự việc đã quá mức, không thể dung thứ. Giọng trang trọng, đanh thép.
Register: formal
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 孰 = thục · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thị khả nhẫn, thục bất khả nhẫn” (thi-kha-nhan-thuc-bat-kha-nhan). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “是可忍，孰不可忍” mean?
If we put up with this, is there anything we would not put up with? A cry of outrage: what has happened goes too far and must not be tolerated. Formal and emphatic. Literally: if this may be endured, what may not
Is “是可忍，孰不可忍” formal or informal?
是可忍，孰不可忍 is generally formal.