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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Idiom of the day /

Idiom of the day /
á-pô á tshue-kué ..... tò-thap

â-pô--á = elderly woman
tshue = steam (a cooking method)
kué = rice cake
tò = on the opposite, overturn, invert.
thap = fall down, collapse, sink in, cave in.
tò-thap : it could mean that the middle of the rice cake sunk in, form a puddle kind of sunk hold in the middle. (Normally the top of rice cake should be flat.)
Also use this pun to mean that (this is hard to explain...) not only you didn't get any profit, benefit from investing time and money into something, someone, it ended up cost you more than you wished.










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