💡 Tip: [[half salty half tasteless]] low quality, indifferent, bad (e.g. mastery of a language) (djh 410, 20) (ad 2.9.2000, C9).
Definitions
1[[half salty half tasteless]] low quality, indifferent, bad (e.g. mastery of a language) (djh 410, 20) (ad 2.9.2000, C9).
2bun làng kèng 半冷喝 — to be caught in a dilemma; to not know whether to go forward or back.
3bun sèuhng 半盞 — half a small or large cup of drugs (OS), cf. hok 殺.
4bun tīn diu 半天吊 — [half-way sky hung] in a stalemate.
5bun tiuh yàhn mehng 半條人命 — [half person life] to be exhausted; to be half-dead; to have one foot in the grave.
6bun tòhng fáan 半唐香 — a Westernised Chinese, a Chinese person who has been strongly influenced by Western culture, values, tastes, etc.
7bun túng séui 半桶水 — [half a bucket of water] to have only a little knowledge.
8bun yè sihk wòhng gwáa 半夜食黃瓜 — [to eat gourd late at night] to not know the whole story, to be unaware of the full situation, to be partially in the dark about something.