「阿媽係女人」
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Pronunciation: | aa3 maa1 hai6 neoi5 jan2 |
Individual Character Meaning: |
阿 Ah-; to cater to 媽 Tin Hau; mother 係 is; to be; "yes"; "right" 女 daughter; female; woman; girlfriend 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person |
Part of Speech: | expression |
Explanation: |
'mums are women', i.e. something trivially true, something everybody knows; used to imply satirically that someone is stating the painfully obvious
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