Results for “老”

veteran

lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge

(coll.) debt dodger

callus / corns (on the feet)

the older generation / ancestors

shrewd and ruthless / efficient and unscrupulous

aged / senile

wine, esp. Shaoxing wine

old money / (attributive) characterized by understated luxury and elite taste

(slang) very close friend / bro

backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) / (may also refer to other products that are of benefit to old people, such as padded cloth shoes, mobility tricycle etc)

glutton

old horse sniffs the wind (idiom) / fig. aged person with great aspirations

lit. the old horse loves his stable / fig. sb old but reluctant to relinquish their post (idiom)

an old horse knows the way (idiom) / an experienced worker knows what to do / an old hand knows the ropes

old thoroughbred / fig. aged person with great aspirations

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom) / fig. aged person with great aspirations

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom) / fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations

old steed sniffs the wind (idiom) / fig. aged person with great aspirations

weary old body (colloquial term, used jocularly or irreverently)

(coll.) old hand / veteran

vulture

sourdough starter

(coll.) black person

(finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds a position in a security at low prices using personal funds, then uses public funds to drive up the price

like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start

when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle

mouse hole

rat poison

lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife

many

old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged

aging (population)

(slang) hairdresser

lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu]

in one's seventies (age) / very old (of people)

lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom) / fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children / sandwich generation

it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black / as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)