{"id":46,"date":"2008-08-20T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T21:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cantonesepod.com\/pods\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:58:11","slug":"cantonese-idiom-cook-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantonesepod.com\/pods\/cantonese-idiom-cook-the-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantonese Idiom: Cook the phone&#8230;(mp3 updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Cantonese use almost the same Chinese characters in their newspaper, most of Mandarin-speaking readers cannot really understand what they are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because they use Cantonese idioms, which have made the language so colorful.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we'll try to start to cover some of those interesting Cantonese idioms as some of our visitors have been requesting us to do so:<\/p>\n<p>????  \tbou1 sau2gei1 zuk1= making long calls with their celphone - the calls last so long just like cooking the porridge.<br \/>\n???? bou1 din6waa2 zuk1 = make long phone call(s)<br \/>\n????  killing comes to you -- refers to danger is coming near.<br \/>\n??????  kill all (even the wrong ones ) so none is missed...<br \/>\n????  brand new\/fresh<br \/>\n???? lots of people will be affected in a bad way \/ many people will be harmed.<br \/>\n???  a fish with a soul -- like a chicken running with its head cut off... refers to something that can bumps into anyone in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Want the Jyutping of the other words?<br \/>\nFor now you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xuezhongwen.net\/chindict\/chindict.php?page=chardict&amp;cdcanoce=0&amp;cdqchi=learn+Cantonese+at+CantonesePod.com%0D%0A%E7%85%B2%E6%89%8B%E6%A9%9F%E7%B2%A5+%E7%85%B2%E7%94%B5%E8%AF%9D%E7%B2%A5++%E6%AE%BA%E5%88%B0%E5%9F%8B%E8%BA%AB++%E6%9C%89%E6%AE%BA%E9%8C%AF%E7%84%A1%E6%94%BE%E9%81%8E++%0D%0A%E6%96%B0%E9%AE%AE%E6%BB%BE%E7%86%B1++%E6%AD%BB%E5%BE%97%E4%BA%BA%E5%A4%9A+%E5%A4%B1%E9%AD%82%E9%AD%9A&amp;cddmtm=1&amp;cddytm=0\" target=\"_blank\">Xuezhongwen.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Cantonese use almost the same Chinese characters in their newspaper, most of Mandarin-speaking readers cannot really understand what they are talking about. 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