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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 彼 (“that”), 嗇 (“insufficient”), 斯 (“this”) and 豐 (“bountiful”).
Pronunciation
Phrase
bỉ sắc tư phong
- (who) is rich in this is poor in that; (figurative) one cannot have it both ways
Anh ấy rất giỏi ngoại ngữ nhưng lại yếu môn toán, lạ gì bỉ sắc tư phong.- He is very good at foreign languages but bad at math, it's not strange that one cannot have it both ways.
1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều), published 1866, lines 5–6:𨔍之彼嗇斯豊
𡗶撑涓貝𦟐紅打㭴- It’s not strange that beauty may beget misery.
The jealous gods tend to heap spites on rosy-cheeked beauties.
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