what is / (old) what for / (in a rhetorical question) it's no use
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(literary) what place / what time / how
(idiom) not worth mentioning / don't mention it
there is no need / why should
Chinese knotweed (Polygonum multiflorum) / fleeceflower root
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
somehow
it's a small world (idiom)
algebraic geometry
algebraic geometry
intrinsic geometry
intrinsic geometry
if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
fractal geometry
fractal geometry
there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
projective geometry
What's (he) up to? / What's the motive behind all this?
plane geometry
geometric optics
geometric figure
geometric mean
(math.) geometric topology
(math.) geometric topology
geometric series
exponential increase
geometric quantity
whence? / where from?
differential geometry
differential geometry
how can this be endured! (idiom)
how about it? / what do you think?
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
What a scandal! / Whatever next?
(Tw) projective geometry
see 早知今日何必當初|早知今日何必当初[]
if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior
What (noble errand) brings you here? / May I help you? / What can I do for you?
If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳|左传) / one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him.
to have no alternative / to be helpless
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