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"Have more chins than a Chinese phone book" nghĩa là gì?
19 Jul, 2019
Photo courtesy: Mark Silber
"Have more chins than a Chinese phone book" = có nhiều cằm hơn cả quyển danh bạ Trung Quốc -> ý chỉ người rất béo, có nọng dày. Ngoài ra "Chin" cũng là họ có nhiều ở Trung Quốc.
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He was so-called because he had more chins than a Chinese phone book. Interestingly, he didn't really have a shoulders, nor a neck.
She remembered the old joke: 'More chins than the Chinese phone directory". That's what this was. The face of Cobey Myles was now a Chinese phone directory.
Is that how that saying goes?”
“I think it's more Chins than a Chinese phone book.” “Huh. I don't get it. Anyhow, Arlo expected his wife to be more than the town gossip.
My dad worked for 3M and traveled a lot, and he once came back from Hong Kong and wordlessly (lặng lẽ) handed me 30 pages torn from the White Pages in his hotel, and I looked and it was all the Chins in a Chinese phonebook. Because he'd heard me laughing at someone on The Tonight Show saying, "He had more chins than a Chinese phone book."
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