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bưng mắt bắt chim

Pronunciation Northern /ɓɨŋ˧˧ mat˧˥ ɓat˧˥ ʨim˧˧/ Central /ɓɨŋ˧˥ ma̰k˩˧ ɓa̰k˩˧ ʨim˧˥/ Southern /ɓɨŋ˧˧ mak˧˥ ɓak˧˥ ʨim˧˧/
cannot hide having a concubine
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cannot hide having a concubine

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Meaning
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cannot hide having a concubine

One cannot catch a bird with covered eyes; an idiom meaning that it is impossible to conceal taking a concubine or second wife.

vi Chuyện ông ấy có vợ hai cả làng đều biết, việc gì phải bưng mắt bắt chim.

en The whole village knows he took a second wife, so there is no point in trying to hide having a concubine.

Parts
bưng / mắt / bắt chim …
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Components

Components

bưng mắt bắt chim
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
搬眜扒𪀄
Candidates by syllable
bưng 搬（𢬄 / 𢲔 / 𣵮） mắt 眜 bắt 扒 chim 𪀄
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
bưng bít / bưng / bưng biền / bưng bưng …
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Starts with this word

bưng bít/bưng/bưng biền/bưng bưng/bưng bô

Ends with this word

đường chim/tăm cá bóng chim/cuốc chim/kẹo trứng chim/lông chim/bắt chim

Use
bưng riềng / nước mắt / kính mắt / ra mắt …
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bưng (to carry) — words using
mắt (eye) — words using
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