「唔發火當⋯病貓」
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| Pronunciation： | m4 faat3 fo2 dong3 beng6 maau1 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
唔 not 發 send out; get rich; to occur; to start; to rise; to produce; to send out; to distribute; to allocate; to spread out; to express; to develop; to become; to flourish; to feel; to expose; to discover; to invent; to whisk; to whip someone; to prosper; to be rich; to worsen; to grow a plant 火 fire; watt; passion 當 as; consider; when; while; just at; to work as; to serve as; to undertake; to face; to be situated in; to consider; to treat as; to think of; to pawn an item; should; ought to; suitable; just 病 illness; disease; to be ill; to be sick 貓 cat; to be drunk |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Labels： | Slang |
| Explanation： |
used to complain that someone is not taking the speaker seriously, that only if the speaker loses his temper or becomes violent will the addressee take him or her seriously; literally: if one doesn't explode one is treated like a sick cat
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