Showing posts with label 流行用语. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 流行用语. Show all posts

Monday, June 7, 2021

Buzzword - 割韭菜 Garlic Chives or Chinese Chives

 韭菜 - chive, a perennial plant related to the onion and having slender leaves used as a vegetable in China. Chives grow quickly and can be harvested many times during the growing season.

Recently, 韭菜 has a derived meaning - the lowest class people. 割韭菜 (harvesting the chives), meaning - the government make the people suffer by the unfair policies.

Monday, June 29, 2020

Slang:空手套白狼 To Gain lots of Money Without any Investment

空手套白狼(Kōngshǒu tào báilàng) original meaning is: caught the wolf without any tool but the empty hands.  It's an analogy to someone gained lots of money without any Investment. Mostly those businesses are at a high risk, the ways they used are illegal or from the gaps of the law.

例如:他的公司什么也没有,但他空手套白狼,靠倒卖进口汽车指标赚了第一桶金。
e.g. His company doesn't have any assets but he earned his first budget of god by reselling the imported car quotas.