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thân em như cánh hoa hồng, lấy phải thằng chồng như đống cỏ khô

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Meaning · English

I am a rose in bloom, married to a husband like a heap of dry straw — beauty bound to dullness.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

vẻ đẹp bị gắn với sự tầm thường

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Discovered via Vietnamese Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.

Topics: Ca dao (folk verse)

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What does “thân em như cánh hoa hồng, lấy phải thằng chồng như đống cỏ khô” mean?

I am a rose in bloom, married to a husband like a heap of dry straw — beauty bound to dullness.

Is “thân em như cánh hoa hồng, lấy phải thằng chồng như đống cỏ khô” formal or informal?

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