要面子 to save face/ false sense of pride
死要面子 dead determined to save face
死要面子活受罪 to save face and suffer/ to save face at one’s own cost
無能 incompetent
口是心非 say yes mean no/ be double-faced/affirm with one’s lip but deny by in one’s heart/say one thing mean another/duplicity
星火燎原 A single spark can start a prairie fire/ A spark neglected burns the house/A spark causes a prairie fire/A little spark makes a great fire
晴天霹靂 A bolt from the blue/ as a big or bad blow/a rude or harsh or bad or nasty or horrible shock/
耿耿於懷 unsettled/disturbed mind
愛情很俗 Love is just secular fun
裝傻 play dumb
性情中人 A man of temperament
患失患得 Worry about personal gains and losses
破鏡重圓 A broken mirror joined together./ Reunion of a separated couple
男兒當自強 a man should be self-reliant/ every man should stand on their feet of their own
不吃回頭草 A willful man must have his way.
弄巧成拙 Do a seemingly clever thing which turns out to be a foolish one instead
口無遮攔 shoot from the lip
沒有教養 I’ll breeding
輕重不分 regardless of weight
平庸 mediocre
一地雞毛 messy
雞毛蒜皮 Literally translates as ” Chicken feathers and garlic skins” to describe anything worthless or unimportant./ De minimis-a law principle, as a matter of policy, the law does not encourage parties to bring legal actions for technical breaches of rules or agreements where the impact of the breach is negligible/Too small to be meaningful or taken into consideration/immaterial/
計無所施 unable to think of a way
瑣屑 petty/trivial/trifling
無所作為 without initiatives
Advice when most needed is least heeded.忠言逆耳
After a storm comes a calm.否極泰來
ll that glitters is not gold.閃爍者未必都是金(不可僅以貌取人)
Bad news travels fast.惡事傳千里