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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
To get on a bus before buying a ticket.
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先上車，後補票。 [PinYin] Xian1 Shang4 Che1 Hou4 Bu3 Piao4 To have a child before getting married.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
[Talk Show] Foreigners' marriages in Taiwan
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A clip from Taiwanese talk show "Kang Xi Lai le". Guests include: Canadian, Brazilian, Pole, Japanese, Congolese... etc. ...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
To take off one's pants before farting
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脫褲子放屁 [PinYin] Tuo1 Ku4 Zi3 Fang4 Pi4 Do something unnecessary. When your fart, do you need to take off your pants? Of course not. We ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
To pretend to be fat by beating one's face
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打腫臉充胖子 PinYin: Da3 Zhong3 Lian3 Chong1 Pang4 Zi Try to satisfy one's vanity when one cannot really afford to do so. Literally, thi...
Monday, April 2, 2012
Dead pig is not afraid of hot water.
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死豬不怕開水燙 [PinYin] Si3 Zhu1 Bu2 Pa4 Kai1 Shui3 Tang4 A dead mouse feels no cold. (Homologous English Idiom) Immersing pork into hot wate...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing is best.
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三十六計，走為上策 [PinYin] San1 Shi2 Liu4 Ji4, Zou3 Wei2 Shang4 Ce4 The best strategy is to run. This idiom originated in Ancient Chinese tacti...
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Open one eye, close one eye.
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睜隻眼閉隻眼 [Pin Yin] Zheng1 Zhi1 Yan3 Bi4 Zhi1 Yan3 To pretend to know nothing about something unethical or improper. Imagine this face: wh...
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