to spend money on sth that turns out to be unsatisfactory or even disastrous
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Shaoxing yellow wine
chaffinch (family Fringillidae)
perfumed toilet water / eau de cologne / floral water / hydrosol
anthocyanidin (biochemistry)
masked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
trick / pattern / novel idea / knack
(bird species of China) blossom-headed parakeet (Psittacula roseata)
dumpling
(coll.) flower bud
the queen of flowers (refers esp. to plum blossom) / (fig.) nickname for a famous beauty or courtesan
see 鱅魚|鳙鱼[]
painting of birds and flowers
yellow flower (cosmetic powder used on women's forehead in former times)
trickery / scam
flower drum, a type of double-skinned Chinese drum / folk dance popular in provinces around the middle reaches of the Yangtze / (bicycle wheel) hub
opera form popular along Changjiang
calico cat
see 桃花源[]
to spend recklessly / to waste money
to spend money recklessly / to squander
to bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck / to truss up
pork belly / streaky pork
flower offering
flower offering
lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom) / fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property / plagiarism
prostitute
hermaphrodite flower
ice crystal / frost (on windows)
ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)
Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora)
gelidiella, tropical and subtropical red algae
embossing
wood shavings
particle board / chipboard
to tattoo / tattoo
to tattoo
engraving (on porcelain etc)
Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)
stamp duty
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