乜嘢新絲蘿蔔皮 (mat1 je5 san1 si1 lo4 baak6 pei4 | ) : What does he think he is?

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乜嘢新絲蘿蔔皮

mat1 je5 san1 si1 lo4 baak6 pei4

Who does he think he is? Who do you think you are?
[literal] What kind of new turnip skin it is?

1. This expression is used to put someone down for being too arrogant.
2. There is a variant version 乜嘢身屍蘿蔔皮. The literal meaning is "What kind of corpse covered with turnip skin?" The metaphorical meaning remains the same.

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

乜嘢新絲蘿蔔皮

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乜 mat1 me1 - [粵] what
嘢 je5 - [粵] thing; articles
新 san1 - new; novel; fresh; beginning
絲 si1 - silk
蘿 lo4 - trailing plants
蔔 baak6 - radish; turnip
皮 pei4 pei4*2 - skin; leather; wrapper; naughty; buck

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