水瓜打狗，唔見噉橛 (seoi2 gwaa1 daa2 gau2 m4 gin3 gam2 gyut6 | ) : losing a chunk of something

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水瓜打狗，唔見噉橛

seoi2 gwaa1 daa2 gau2 m4 gin3 gam2 gyut6

losing a chunk of sth; losing a significant part of sth

The second part has several variant forms, like 唔見咗一截, 唔見噉一大橛, etc.

Level: 4
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

水瓜打狗，唔見噉橛

This word has been viewed 2029 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 9th Jul 2008 07:43 and last edited on 2nd Jul 2015 02:43

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水 seoi2 - water; liquid; dough (money)
瓜 gwaa1 - gourd; melon
打 daa2 daa1 - hit; strike | dozen
狗 gau2 - dog
， - (not in database)
唔 m4 - not; no
見 gin3 jin6 - see; meet; view; show evidence of
噉 gam2 - such; like this; this way; in that case
橛 gyut6 kyut3 - chunk; section; length; wooden stake

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