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打醬油
打醬油
Chinese
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
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soy sauce | ||
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| trad. (打醬油) | 打 | 醬油 | |
| simp. (打酱油) | 打 | 酱油 | |
| Literally: “to buy soy sauce; to fill up the soy sauce bottle in one's household”. | |||
Verb
打醬油
- (slang) to be none of someone's business; to not involve one
Usage notes
- Usually used to express one's reluctance to discuss sensitive issues, sometimes in a jocular or sarcastic fashion.
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