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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
(polite response) you're welcome / just doing my duty / no problem
OMG / my goodness
the elephant in the room
odd-jobs worker
weak and inept person / hopeless case
to move a stone and stub one's toe / to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard
motorcycle taxi
motorcycle taxi / abbr. for 摩托車的士|摩托车的士[]
fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
lit. the child who cries gets the candy (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) / fig. to have a clear objective
sometimes / at times
see 有的沒的|有的没的[]
trivial (matters) / triviality / nonsense / rubbish
lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子[]) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets
(slang) (originally northeast dialect) excellent / great
bastard / scumbag / son of a bitch
creeped out / unnerved / uneasy
a "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless contributors, famously applied to model worker Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[]
(idiom) no secret can be kept forever
see 沒說的|没说的[]
(coll.) nothing to pick on / really good / (coll.) nothing to discuss / settled matter / no problem
standard / norm / criterion
aimless / at random
spilt water / (fig.) sth that can not be retrieved / spilt milk
for the sake of / for the purpose of
to shoot without aim (idiom) / fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
(like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated
(chemistry) amount of substance
son of a bitch
(vulgar) damned / fucking (attributive intensifier) / (vulgar) bastard
(coll.) to play dirty / to use underhanded tactics / (coll.) sneaky / underhanded
man
lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people
the brightest jewel in the crown
sb who is easy to deal with (usu. in the negative, e.g. after 不是[])
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