sān yán èr yǔ

just a few words; concise language

sān cháng liǎng duǎn

unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death

出处: Extended from 長短 /长短 (chángduǎn), which already has the meaning of “mishap”. 三 and 兩 /两 are two arbitrary numbers which can also mean “some” (see 二三 (èrsān) and 三兩 /三两 (sānliǎng)). Folk etymology states that the term is a euphemism referring to a coffin, which consists of 3 pieces of long and 2 pieces of short wood excluding the cover.

shàng xià qí shǒu

to practice fraud; to manoeuvre for some evil end; to get up to tricks; to signal as conspiratorial hint; to sexually harass by groping

直译: to raise and lower one's hand

shàng qì bù jiē xià qì

to be out of breath; to gasp for breath

bù yī ér zú

cannot be described only by one example; by no means an isolated case; to be numerous; innumerable

出处: The original and literal meaning in the Gongyang was "to not make full (the approval) all at once", i.e., to be conditional and graduated in dispensing approval. It was also written as "不壹而足" in the Gongyang, and typically used in the phrase : As chengyu, the phrase has been re-analysed semantically in common usage and shifted in meaning.

bù èr fǎ mén

the one and only way; no second way of cultivation; the dharma gateway of nonduality

出处: Originally Buddhist, first attested in 406, in《維摩詰經》 (“Vimalakirti Sutra”), translated by Kumarajiva.

bù chū suǒ liào

💡 Урьдчилан таамагласнаас гараагүй, яг бодсон шигээ болох.

bù wù zhèng yè

to not do an honest day's work; to not live by honest labor; to disregard one's real occupation; to not attend to one's proper duties

bù dòng shēng sè

to maintain one's composure; to stay calm and collected; to not turn a hair; to not bat an eyelid; to not show or betray one's feelings or intentions

出处: First attested in 1065, in Ouyang Xiu's Account of the Zhoujin Hall in Xiangzhou Prefecture

bù kě yī shì

to consider oneself the best in the world; to have an overweening or insufferable arrogance

bù kě zhōng rì

in a desperate situation; very frightened; very anxious

直译: unable to carry on even for a single day

bù hé shí yí

untimely; premature; inopportune; ill-timed; out of fashion; behind the times

bù zài shǎo shù

💡 Тийм хүн, тийм тохиолдол цөөнгүй, нэлээд олон байна.

bù shēng bù xiǎng

💡 Ямар ч дуу чимээ гаргалгүй, юу ч хэлэлгүй чимээгүйхэн байх.

bù róng fēn shuō

to allow no expectation; without listening to somebody's protests; despite objections

bù gān bù jìng

💡 Бохир заваан; мөн хүний яриа бүдүүлэг, зохисгүй байх.

bù zé shǒu duàn

💡 Зорилгодоо хүрэхийн тулд сайн муу гэж ялгалгүй ямар ч арга хэрэглэх.

bù qī rán ér rán

to happen unexpectedly; to turn out contrary to one's expectations

bù qī ér huì

to meet unexpectedly or by chance; to have a chance encounter

bù qī ér rán

to happen unexpectedly; to turn out contrary to one's expectations

bù qī ér yù

to meet unexpectedly or by chance; to have a chance encounter

bù zhī qù xiàng

to not know where someone or something went

bù zhī suǒ zhōng

to not know what has become of someone; to not know someone's whereabouts; to not know what happened to someone

bù yán bù yǔ

to not say a word; to keep silent

bù shí shí wù

to show no understanding of the times; to not be able to adapt to current circumstances; to lack judgement

bù zú wéi qí

💡 Энгийн зүйл учир гайхах юм алга.

bù zú wéi guài

to be no wonder; to be not surprising

bù zú wéi jù

cannot prove the point; to be insufficient evidence

bù zú qīng zhòng

worthless; negligible

bù wén bù wèn

to not bother to ask or to listen; to show no interest in; to be indifferent to

直译: to neither hear nor question

qiě gē qiě wǔ

to dance and sing at the same time

shì shì nán liào

worldly affairs are difficult to predict

shì fēng rì xià

the world's morals are worsening day by day.

dōng shān zài qǐ

to come back from a previous failure; to rise again

直译: to rise again from Dongshan

出处: Based on Xie An (謝安) of the Jin (晉) dynasty, who quit his office and lived in seclusion in Dongshan (a mountain in Zhejiang, China), but later returned to office.

dōng xī nán běi

east, west, south and north; everywhere; all corners of the world

dōng xī nán běi zhōng

east, west, south, north and centre; all places

dōng fēng huà yǔ

good fortune and education

直译: east wind and rain

diū rén xiàn yǎn

to make a fool of oneself; to make oneself lose face

liǎng shǒu kōng kōng

💡 Гар хоосон, юу ч авчираагүй, юу ч олоогүй.