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浑身解数 hún shēn xiè shù to give it your all / to go at it with all you've got / to throw your whole weight behind it / also pr. [hun2 shen1 jie3 shu4]
躲年 duǒ nián to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
有了 yǒu le I've got a solution! / to have a bun in the oven (abbr. for 有了胎[you3 le5 tai1])
白月光 bái yuè guāng (slang) the one that got away
吃别人嚼过的馍不香 chī bié rén jiáo guò de xiāng lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom) / fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first
放马过来 fàng guò lái bring it on! / give me all you got!
知道了 zhī dào le OK! / Got it!
算你狠 suàn hěn you got me! / you win! / you are something!
葫芦里卖的是什么药 lu mài de shì shén me yào what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
卖力气 mài qi to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got


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