lí tí wàn lǐ

to be completely off-topic

直译: to stray from the subject by ten thousand li

xiào kǒu cháng kāi

to always keep a smile on one's face; to keep being cheerful

bǐ xià shēng huā

to begin to show one’s literary brilliance

hóng nán lǜ nǚ

young men and women in colorful clothes

hóng bái dà shì

matters related to weddings and funerals

出处: Red (紅事): weddings; white (白事): funerals.

wǎng kāi yī miàn

to be lenient and magnanimous with wrongdoers

直译: to leave open one side of the net

出处: Originally as 網開三面 (“to leave open three sides of the net”)

lǎo fū lǎo qī

old married couple

zì zuò duō qíng

to display affection regardless of whether the other party accepts it; to imagine that one's affection is reciprocated; to indulge in one's own wishful thinking; to flatter oneself

zì dòng zì jiào

consciously; on one's own initiative

zì jǐ zì zú

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zì gāo zì dà

self-important; conceited; arrogant; self-aggrandizing

huā tiān jiǔ dì

to indulge in sensual pleasures; to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure; life of debauchery

直译: flowers in the sky, alcohol on the ground

chá fàn bù sī

to be distressed or worried

biǎo lǐ bù yī

to think in one way but speak and act in another; to be two-faced

shuō lái huà cháng

It's a long story

jìn jiǔ zuò lè

to pour alcohol and toast and to seek plesure

yuǎn zǒu gāo fēi

to leave somewhere for a very faraway place (in order to escape)

直译: to run far away like a beast and fly high like a bird

cháng nián lěi yuè

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cháng shēng bù lǎo

to live forever and never grow old

miàn yǒu cài sè

to have a sallow complexion and look famished

gāo rén yī děng

to be superior to others; to be a head taller than others

jī fēi gǒu zǒu

synonym of 雞飛狗跳 /鸡飞狗跳 (jīfēigǒutiào, “complete turmoil; total chaos”)

jī fēi gǒu tiào

complete turmoil; complete chaos