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Trad. 買下
- to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
Trad. 買帳
- to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative)
- to accept (a version of events)
- to buy it
Trad. 採買
- to purchase; to buy
- to do one's shopping
- purchasing agent; buyer
Trad. 買路錢
- money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll
- (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
Trad. 買了佛冷
- (Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018
Trad. 買官賣官
- buying and selling of official positions
Trad. 買櫝還珠
- to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside
- to show poor judgment (idiom)
Trad. 買空賣空
- to speculate
- to play the market
- (fig.) to sell hot air
- to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
Trad. 買笑追歡
- lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness
- abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)
Trad. 邀買人心
- to buy popular support
- to court favor
Trad. 投機買賣
- to engage in speculative trading
Trad. 公買公賣
- buying and selling at fair prices
Trad. 要買人心
- variant of 邀買人心|邀买人心[yao1 mai3 ren2 xin1]
Trad. 鄭人買履
- lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑[Zheng4] who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom)
- fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
Trad. 強買強賣
- to force sb to buy or sell
- to trade using coercion
Trad. 千金難買
- can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
Trad. 照買不誤
- to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Trad. 倒買倒賣
- to buy and sell at a profit
- to speculate
Trad. 招兵買馬
- lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom)
- fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
Trad. 博士買驢
- (idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
Trad. 買一送一
- buy one, get one free
- two for the price of one
Trad. 一錘子買賣
- a one-off, short-sighted deal
- a one-shot, all-out attempt
Trad. 牙買加胡椒
- Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
Trad. 寸金難買寸光陰
- An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.
- Time is precious.
Trad. 證券櫃檯買賣中心
- GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)