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bắt cóc
(verb) to kidnap; to abduct
cane toad
A person from Queensland; a Queenslander.
chợ cóc
(noun) a small makeshift market
chụp ếch
(verb) to catch frogs
cá cóc
(noun) salamander
cá cóc Tam Đảo
(noun) Tam Dao salamander
cóc nhảy
(adverb) skippingly
fine as frog hair
Extremely fine.
frog
Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
frog hair
Money contributed to a campaign.
frog sticker
A pocketknife.
hàm ếch
(noun) palate
hở hàm ếch
(adjective) having cleft palate
mad as a box of frogs
Completely mad; insane; crazy.
nhảy cóc
(verb) to skip (disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation)
odious as a toad
Very odious; hateful.
quán cóc
(noun) street shop that serves quick foods or drinks, usually set up on the sidewalk
step on a frog
To break wind.
thơ con cóc
(noun) jocular poetry; a jocular poem
trứng ếch
frogspawn or frog eggs
ếch
(noun) a frog; the leaping amphibian of ponds and rice paddies
ếch giun
(noun) a Ceylon caecilian (Ichthyophis glutinosus)
ếch ngồi đáy giếng
Someone with a narrow worldview who mistakes their limited experience for the whole world.
boiling frog
Describes a situation where a problem develops gradually, unnoticed until it's too late.
cóc
(noun) toad
Cóc vái Trời
To show respect or admiration to someone of higher status
frog
A policeman. Because, by a popular delusion, he is supposed to pounce suddenly on delinquents.
frog and toad
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
frog in one's throat
a hoarse or sore throat
frog's march
Carrying an obstreperous prisoner, face downwards, by his four limbs.
frog’s march
The manner in which four or more policemen carry a drunken or turbulent man to the station-house. The victim is held face downwards, one constable being at each shoulder, while the others hold on above the knees. Often there is another active and intelligent officer who beats time to the march on the recalcitrant hero’s posteriors.
Kermit the Frog
Bog.
toad
Toad in a hole; meat baked or boiled in pye-crust. He or she sits like a toad on a chopping-block; a saying of any who sits ill on horseback. As much need of it as a toad of a side-pocket; said of a person who desires any thing for which he has no real occasion. As full of money as a toad is of feathers.
toad eater
A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standing butt, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a mountebank's servant, on whom all experiments used to be made in public by the doctor, his master; among which was the eating of toads, formerly supposed poisonous.