年三十晚謝灶──好做唔做 (nin4 saam1 sap6 maan5 ze6 zou3 hou2 zou6 m4 zou6 | ) : did not do what one should have done

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年三十晚謝灶──好做唔做

nin4 saam1 sap6 maan5 ze6 zou3 hou2 zou6 m4 zou6

did not do what one should have done (lit., "thank the god of the kitchen on new year's eve--what should be done is undone")

This type of idiom is called 歇後語 (two-part allegory).

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

年三十晚謝灶──好做唔做

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Characters in this word:

年 nin4 - year
三 saam1 saam3 - three; several
十 sap6 - ten
晚 maan5 - night, late
謝 ze6 - thank, thanks
灶 zou3 - kitchen range
─ - (not in database)
─ - (not in database)
好 hou2 hou3 - good; very; friendly; healthy; ready
做 zou6 - do, make
唔 m4 - not; no
做 zou6 - do, make

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