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nuts and bolts
Crabs & shellfish · Cua ốc 98
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bán chạy như tôm tươi
to sell like hot cakes
bánh canh cua
(noun) a kind of soup with crabmeat and thick noodles (typically in pork broth)
bánh phồng tôm
(noun) prawn cracker
bánh đa cua
(noun) crab red noodle soup, a local dish from Haiphong consisting of red or white rice noodles (bánh đa đỏ hoặc trắng ) and pork-based broth that is topped with a variety of ingredients such as pestled crab meat, fresh herbs, pork balls, chả lụa sausage, or ground meat wrapped with lolot leaves (lá lốt)
bún cua
(noun) bún riêu; Vietnamese rice vermicelli soup, usually served with fish, snail, tofu, pig skin (bì), congealed blood (huyết) and/or raw vegetables, and characteristically, with crab meatballs
bún đậu mắm tôm
(noun) a noodle dish from Northern Vietnam consisting of rice vermicelli, fried tofu and fermented shrimp paste topped with a variety of ingredients such as spring rolls, boiled pork, sausages, and fresh herbs and vegetables
bún ốc
(noun) snail rice vermicelli soup (often with added tofu, mint, and vegetables)
bầu cua cá cọp
(noun) bầu cua cá cọp, a Vietnamese gambling game played with three dice, similar to Hoo Hey How in China, Kla Klouk in Cambodia, Crown and Anchor in Britain, and chuck-a-luck in America
bật tôm
(noun) kip-up
cao ốc
(noun) tall building
clam up
To become silent; to stop talking.
cua
(noun) crab (a crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura)
cua cạn
(noun) land crab
cua đinh
(noun) soft-shell turtle
cua đồng
(noun) various freshwater crabs of the genus Somanniathelphusa
dầu hàu
(noun) oyster sauce
gai ốc
(noun) goosebumps (on the skin)
gắt như mắm tôm
easily irritable
happy as a clam
Very happy and carefree.
hàu
(noun) an oyster (mollusk; food)
hàu đá
(noun) rock oyster (Saccostrea)
king crab
A king and a three as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
kì tôm
(noun) Chinese water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus)
kỳ tôm
(noun) Alternative spelling of kì tôm.
lobster box
A British troopship.
mountain oyster
Hog testicles prepared as food.
mì tôm
(noun) instant noodles
mắm tôm
(noun) shrimp paste
phòng ốc
(noun) room; house; dwelling; residence (generally speaking)
purser's crabs
Boots issued by the navy.
rau càng cua
(noun) pepper elder (Peperomia pellucida)
raw lobster
Synonym of unboiled lobster (“police officer”).
red as a lobster
Bright red in color, especially from a bad sunburn.
rồng đến nhà tôm
someone of high status has paid a visit to someone of low status
shrimp
A small, puny or unimportant person.
shrimp up
To cower or flinch; to shrink back.
shrimp welfare
Unintuitive or absurd allocations of time and resources as a result of utilitarianism or effective altruism.
the world is one's lobster
Intentional misrendering of the proverb "the world is one's oyster".
trôn ốc
(noun) spiral; helix
tôm
(noun) shrimp, prawn
tôm càng xanh
(noun) giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)
tôm he
(noun) kind of penaeid prawn
tôm hùm
(noun) lobster
tôm sú
(noun) kind of penaeid prawn
tôm tít
(noun) mantis shrimp
tổ tôm
(noun) kind of traditional Vietnamese card game
unboiled lobster
A police officer.
white lobster
jettisoned cocaine retrieved by fishermen
xoắn ốc
(noun) spiral
xúp cua
(noun) Vietnamese crab soup
xơ cua
(adjective) spare
đầu cua tai nheo
details in a story or event
địa ốc
(noun) real estate
ốc
(noun) an animal, especially a mollusk, with a spiral shell
ốc anh vũ
(noun) a nautilus
ốc bươu
(noun) medium-sized edible snail
ốc len
(noun) obtuse horn shell (Cerithidea obtusa)
ốc mượn hồn
(noun) hermit crab
ốc nha
(noun) A Cambodian title equivalent to marquess or marquis.
ốc quế
(noun) ice cream cone
ốc sên
(noun) land snail
ốc vít
(noun) a screw
ốc vú nàng
(noun) certain limpets of the genus Cellana or Tectus
ốc đảo
(noun) oasis
bearded clam
Vulva
bỏ con tép bắt con tôm
Give up something small to gain something bigger
chạch bỏ giỏ cua
To escape from a bad situation into a worse one
chủ vắng nhà, gà vọc niêu tôm
when the cat's away the mice will play
clam
A dollar.
clam smacker
A lesbian.
close as a clam
Mean, close-fisted; from the difficulty with which a clam is made to open its shell and give up all it has worth having.
Close as a Kentish oyster
Absolutely secret; hermetically sealed. Kentish oysters are pro- verbially good, and all good oysters are fast closed.
crab
To ruin.
crab
To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing.
crab
A disagreeable old person. Name of a wild and sour fruit.
crab louse
A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.
crab mentality
Behavior where individuals undermine others' success out of jealousy
crabs
Pubic lice.
crabs
A losing throw to the main at hazard.
crabs
In dicing, a pair of aces.
lobster
A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his clothes. To boil one's lobster, for a churchman to become a soldier: lobsters, which are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling. I will not make a lobster kettle of my ****, a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point at Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favour.
lobster
A soldier. A policeman, from the colour of his coat, is styled an unboiled, or raw LOBSTER.
ngang như cua
Completely furious or extremely angry
Nhạt như nước ốc ao bèo
Extremely dull and uninteresting
oyster
A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive man; in law Latin, UNUM VIRIDUM GOBBUM
oyster fruit
Pearls.
sand crab
A civilian.
shrimp
A little diminutive person.
shrimp
A diminutive person.—Chaucer.
squeeze crab
A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow.
the world is someone's oyster
All opportunities are open to someone; the world is theirs.
to catch a crab
A rowing phrase used when the oarsman fails to catch the water with the oar. He is then struck by the handle of the oar as it is caught in the water and rises.
tôm hùm đất
crayfish
vắng chủ nhà, gà vọc niêu tôm
When the person in charge is away, those left behind misbehave or run wild.
Who eats oysters on St
James's Day will never want. St. James's Day is the first day of the oyster season (August 5th), when oysters are an expensive luxury eaten only by the rich.
Ăn ốc nói mò, ăn măng nói mọc, ăn cò nói bay
Speak appropriately to the situation
Đời cua cua máy, đời cáy cáy đào
Everyone has their own troubles