「未見官先打三十大板」
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| Pronunciation： | mei6 gin3 gun1 sin1 daa2 saam1 sap6 daai6 baan2 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
未 not yet; have not; did not; yet 見 to meet; to see; to experience; to feel; to consider; to regard 官 bureaucrat; government official; government; judge; judicial officer 先 first; before; earlier; ago; used as a prefix; temporarily; tentatively; for the time being; for now; not until; then and only then; for no other reason; only; actually; really; in fact 打 to hit; dozen; to beat; to strike; to knock; to shoot; to compete with; to fight against; to go up against; to whisk; to inject; to load; to fill with; to tie; to knot; to "check off"; to get; to seize; to catch; to hunt; to work; to strive; to think; to concentrate; to count 三 three 十 ten 大 big; to grow up; to intimidate; to bluff; intensely; greatly; fully; on a large scale; university; large; old in age; older; senior; number two 板 board; plank |
| Part of Speech： | expression |
| Explanation： |
to pay a price before one can have the possibility of getting what one wants; literally: thirty strokes on the behind before one can see the official
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