sơ trôn chẳng thấy thối
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Meaning · English
Being too close to something makes it hard to see its flaws
Literally: sitting on a pile doesn't see the rotten
Examples
Anh ấy sống cùng gia đình vợ nên sơ trôn chẳng thấy thốiHe lives with his wife's family, so he's too close to see the problems
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 “sơ trôn chẳng thấy thối” mean?
Being too close to something makes it hard to see its flaws Literally: sitting on a pile doesn't see the rotten
Is “sơ trôn chẳng thấy thối” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.