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清酒 qīng jiǔ sake (Japanese rice wine)
念旧 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
抬杠 tái gàng to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
为着 wèi zhe in order to / because of / for the sake of
功亏一篑 gōng kuī kuì lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
猎隼 liè sǔn (bird species of China) saker falcon (Falco cherrug)
姑妄言之 wàng yán zhī to just talk for the sake of talking
薄面 miàn my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
任侠 rèn xiá chivalrous / helping the weak for the sake of justice
看在 kàn zài (in the expression 看在[kan4 zai4] + ... + 的份上[de5 fen4 shang5]) for the sake of ...; considering ...
死要面子活受罪 yào miàn zi huó shòu zuì to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
以利于 for the sake of / in order to
不看僧面看佛面 kàn sēng miàn kàn miàn lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom) / fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
欲取姑与 to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
日本米酒 běn jiǔ Japanese rice wine / sake
欲取姑予 variant of 欲取姑與|欲取姑与[yu4 qu3 gu1 yu3] / to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
为五斗米折腰 wèi dǒu zhé yāo (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
为的是 wèi de shì for the sake of / for the purpose of


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