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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 君 (“monarch”), 無 (“not”) and 戲言 (“to joke, to jest, to say something playfully and not in earnest”).
Based on a quote in Lüshi Chunqiu (translation adapted from Knoblock & Riegel 2001):
Pronunciation
Idiom
quân vô hí ngôn
- A monarch should not say anything in jest
- (by extension) A person in power should not say anything in jest and not in earnest
- 2018, Linh Oanh, "Nước cờ nguy hiểm (The Dangerous Chess Move)", Báo Quân đội nhân dân (People's Army Newspaper)
- Dù vậy, "quân vô hí ngôn", dẫu nhiều khả năng chỉ là một đòn gió, thì "nước cờ" của Tổng thống D. Trump cũng tiềm ẩn nhiều rủi ro.
- Even so, "a monarch / a person in power should not say anything in jest", though in most likelihoods it has been just a feint attack, President D. Trump's "chess move" also has many potential risks.