大蛇屙屎

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Chinese

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big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 
snake; serpent to defecate
trad. (大蛇屙屎) 屙屎
simp. #(大蛇屙屎) 屙屎
Literally: “big snake defecating”.

Pronunciation

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Idiom

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大蛇屙屎

  1. (Cantonese, Hakka, figuratively) very rare things or phenomena
    大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, trad.]
    大蛇屙屎 [Cantonese, simp.]
    mei6 gin3 gwo3 daai6 se4 o1 si2 [Jyutping]
    never having seen big things before (and therefore considering a normal thing remarkable due to ignorance)

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