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賣妻鬻子
Mandarin: mai4 qi1 yu4 zi3
sell one's wife and son away to sustain existence
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賣官鬻爵
Mandarin: mai4 guan1 yu4 jue2
Simplified: 卖官鬻爵
to sell official posts and titles, describes a corrupt government
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賣座
Mandarin: mai4 zuo4
to have box office success; popular
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賣弄
show-off; cut round; ostentation; splash; splurge
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賣得
Mandarin: mai4 de2
Simplified: 卖得
hot-selling; sell like hot cakes;
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賣懶
Mandarin: mai4 lan3
Simplified: 卖懒
traditional customs of children "selling laziness" before lunar new year, to wish for a productive year ahead
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賣招牌
Mandarin: mai4 zhao1 pai5
Simplified: 卖招牌
(verb) to offer something at a bargain just to establish one's brand; to sell a brand name (as an asset); brand selling (to sell the brand, not the product)
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賣方
Mandarin: mai4 fang1
the selling party (of a contract, etc.); seller
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賣方市場
Mandarin: mai4 fang1 shi4 chang3
Simplified: 卖方市场
sellers' market
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賣樓花
sales of uncompleted property units
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賣檯
Mandarin: mai4 tai2
Simplified: 卖台
to sell or sub-contract a space to another business; to sell the right to product | trademark | license [colloquial]
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賣武
Mandarin: mai4 wu3
Simplified: 卖武
to perform martial arts for a living
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賣淫
Mandarin: mai4 yin2
harlot, harlotry, prostitution, streetwalking, whore, whoredom [also see] 嫖妓
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賣淫網站
a website selling sex
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賣物會
Mandarin: mai4 wu4 hui4
Simplified: 卖物会
a bazaar selling goods for fundraising; a jumble sale; a fête
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賣物會
a bazaar | also 巴殺 as a loanword
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賣生藕
Mandarin: mai4 sheng1 ou3
Simplified: 卖生藕
women flirting with men (slang)
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賣甩
Mandarin: mai4 shuai3
Simplified: 卖甩
betray | ignore
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賣相
Mandarin: mai4 xiang4
outward appearance; exterior packaging
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賣破綻
Mandarin: mai4 po4 zhan4
to feign an opening in order to hoodwink the opponent (in a fight, combat, etc.)
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賣空
Mandarin: mai4 kong1
(financial markets terminology) short selling; shorting
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賣花讚花香
Mandarin: mai4 hua1 zan4 hua1 xiang1
Simplified: 卖花赞花香
stating the positives and hiding the negatives (slang)
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賣藝
Mandarin: mai4 yi4
Simplified: 卖艺
to make money as a performer
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賣血
Mandarin: mai4 xue4
Simplified: 卖血
to be so poor that one have to sell their blood to survive [colloquial]
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賣豬仔
Mandarin: mai4 zhu1 zai3
Simplified: 卖猪仔
(phrasal verb) to traffick labourers overseas to work as coolies; to betray | to trick (usually only used in the passive voice, 'to be betrayed' | 'to be tricked'; refers to people who have to sell themselves into slavery when driven by poverty
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賣身契
Mandarin: mai4 shen1 qi4
Simplified: 卖身契
an indenture agreement for someone who is selling themself
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賣身投靠
Mandarin: mai4 shen1 tou2 kao4
Simplified: 卖身投靠
to sell oneself out to somebody else
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賣關子
Mandarin: mai4 guan1 zi5
keep sb guessing; keep listeners in suspense; stop a story at a climax; deliberately mystify sth at a crucial point (in the talk)
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賣面光
Mandarin: mai4 mian4 guang1
Simplified: 卖面光
to ingratiate oneself with
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賣頭賣尾
Mandarin: mai4 tou2 mai4 wei3
Simplified: 卖头卖尾
selling what's left over
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