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bendan
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Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #10 (double digits baybeeeeee)
不足挂齿
(bù zú guà chǐ)
Literally: “not enough hang teeth”
Figuratively: “not worth mentioning; nothing to speak of”
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@Commiejones@hexbear.net you want a tag as well?
Why settle for 1 when you can have 3:
张三、李四、王五
(and if you're wondering why they start indexing at 3, all I can say is it's a bit 乱七八糟)
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #6
前车之鉴
(qián chē zhī jiàn)
Literally: “front car[t] [’s] mirror”
Figuratively: “lesson to be learned from sb else’s mistakes”
鉴 is pretty spicy, its etymology goes something like mirror -> reflect -> scrutinize -> warning, the last of which is relevant here. The implication is that the car in front has crashed.
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #5
不辞而别
(bù cí ér bié)
Literally: “not dismiss [and yet] part”
Figuratively: “leave without saying goodbye; slip out; ‘take French leave’”
This is me but with China, since people just think of them as basically the same place.
Is this what racism feels like? 
admittedly a rather gay drama but w/e (word of honor)
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #1
抛砖引玉
(pāo zhuān yǐn yù)
Literally: “throw brick pull jade”
Figuratively: “this is just my dumb ass opinion but I'm putting it out here to start the discussion, in the hopes that someone will ~~correct me~~ be inspired to say something wise”
Everyone's learning Mandarin lol. I've been on and off for a few years but should get back into it, 亡羊补牢！
I've tried to learn the Arabic alphabet a few times but I just can't keep track of the dots. Are there other ways to group the letters that help learning?
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #16
木已成舟
(mù yǐ chéng zhōu)
Literally: “wood already become boat”
Figuratively: “what’s done can’t be undone”
Even if you don’t know Chinese, take a look at the first and last characters and you might still be able to make out traces of a tree and a boat. (We don't talk about the middle 2 characters 💀)
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