Discussion Your preferred idiom in Wuxia, Xianxia & Xuanhuan is...

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What is your preferred or most hated idiom?

  1. You are courting death!

    37.1%
  2. I was entertaining angels unawares

    2.1%
  3. Coughing blood (figurative)

    33.0%
  4. You can't see Mount Tai!

    35.1%
  5. I don't know whether to laugh or to cry...

    28.9%
  6. Mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!

    22.7%
  7. You don't know how to write the word death!

    5.2%
  8. Giving me face!

    21.6%
  9. A carp leaping through the dragon gate

    10.3%
  10. Pretend to be a Pig, to eat the Tiger!

    13.4%
  11. New A toad wishing to eat swan meat!

    5.2%
  12. You don't know how high the heavens are!

    5.2%
  13. His face/heart sank

    2.1%
  14. Stumbling around like headless flies

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  15. Fishing in troubled waters!

    2.1%
  16. A frog sitting in a well

    1.0%
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  1. ElefantVerd

    ElefantVerd It's not me, and it's not you.

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    I know, I know, what we've got here is failure to communicate, ops, I mean, there's chinese idioms that are translated "as is" and you, poor reader, need to know what exactly that means. Some generous and esteemed translators put a footnote explaining what that means, and some simply choose an english equivalent idiom.

    Well, some of them are pretty obvious, some are not that obvious. Yet, there are some that are colorful, entertaining, or plainly wrong.

    What is the idiom you like or love to hate? Remembering that idiom, in this context, is "a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own".
     
  2. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    cough blood~ not literary one~ I mean coughing blood lot of time those people really healthy no? or they near to death~
     
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  3. madness-

    madness- The Wanderer

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    You Can't See the Mt Tai !1!1!:blobowoevil:
     
  4. DocB

    DocB "I see you, little mouse! Run along"

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    DIE!!!!!!!
    it just rolls off the tongue
     
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  5. Fluffy Jellyfish

    Fluffy Jellyfish 『Number 1 Lolicon under Heaven』

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    You expected an idiom?

    BUT IT WAS ME, DIO !!
     
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  6. ElefantVerd

    ElefantVerd It's not me, and it's not you.

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    You are not giving me face!
     
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    MangoGuy Rambling Mango

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    mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
     
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  8. SoulZer0

    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    I don't know whether to laugh or to cry when reading this thread.
     
  9. SAimNE

    SAimNE Well-Known Member

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    When you were creating this list it was as if you couldn't see Mount Tai :mad:
     
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    jackateonetoo Wet Dog

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    Mantis stalks the cicada
     
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    tides Well-Known Member

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    dont think u know what idioms are....
     
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  12. madness-

    madness- The Wanderer

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    HOOOO ?
     
  13. Delusion

    Delusion Dark lord

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    Where is the legendary pretending to be pig to eat the tiger.
    This is heresy
     
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  14. ElefantVerd

    ElefantVerd It's not me, and it's not you.

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  15. Jigoku Shounen

    Jigoku Shounen An Envoy From Hell

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    This 3 are too Perfect and Common for any other CN novels quotes to be known.
    ^ Need to add this to the poll too.
     
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  16. Jiggy

    Jiggy I am JiggyliFAP~ the not fat anymore guy.

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    Thanos IS courting death. The reason why Deadpool is immortal IS because Thanos is jealous of Deadpool because Death likes deadpool and Thanos likes death so he made Deadpool immortal so he can't be with death.
     
  17. otaku31

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    A carp leaping through the dragon gate- Every trash MC after getting cheat. :blobpeek:
     
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  18. ElefantVerd

    ElefantVerd It's not me, and it's not you.

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    Is "gone for wool and come home shorn" a chinese idiom?
     
  19. Dawngawser

    Dawngawser Something something

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    Lemme just insert random idiom from chinese.
    As the ancients say
    I dont need to tell you what it means, do I?
    I hate this idiom becos translated literally it makes no sense. I forgot most of it, but it goes like this literally. "The cloud people ???(forgot it means say, but only in certain contexts)"
    Does this fit ur definition of idioms?
     
  20. Superioreos

    Superioreos Well-Known Member

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    I'm pretty sure the Chinese version of that is "trying to catch the chicken but ending up losing both the chicken and the rice." (As in you used some rice to bait a chicken but it got away, so you lost your rice and the chicken. )
     
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