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Trad. 外賣
- (of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal
- takeout (business)
- takeout (meal)
Trad. 賣乖
- to show off one's cleverness
- (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
Trad. 賣力
- to work hard
- to do one's very best
- to throw oneself into the task at hand
Trad. 賣命
- to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away
- to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
Trad. 賣座
- (of a movie, show or restaurant) to attract customers
- popular with the paying public; high-grossing
- number of seats occupied (by moviegoers etc)
Trad. 燒賣
- shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling
- also written 燒麥|烧麦[shao1 mai4]
Trad. 媽賣批
- (vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄[ma1 mai4 bi1])
Trad. 大賣場
- hypermarket
- large warehouse-like self-service retail store
Trad. 小賣部
- kiosk
- snack counter
- retail department or section inside a larger business
Trad. 賣力氣
- to make a living doing manual labor
- to give sth all one's got
Trad. 賣本事
- to flaunt a skill
- to give display to one's ability
- to show off a feat
- to vaunt one's tricks
Trad. 賣炭翁
- The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4]
Trad. 賣破綻
- to feign an opening in order to hoodwink the opponent (in a fight, combat etc)
Trad. 賣關子
- (in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense
- (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
Trad. 賣面子
- to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
Trad. 賣風流
- to exert flirtatious allure
- to entice coquettishly
Trad. 讀賣新聞
- Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
Trad. 生炒熱賣
- to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
Trad. 倚老賣老
- (idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
Trad. 買官賣官
- buying and selling of official positions
Trad. 現炒現賣
- lit. to fry and sell on the spot
- fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
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. 投機買賣
- to engage in speculative trading
Trad. 以老賣老
- variant of 倚老賣老|倚老卖老[yi3 lao3 mai4 lao3]
Trad. 公買公賣
- buying and selling at fair prices
Trad. 裝瘋賣傻
- to play the fool (idiom)
- to feign madness
Trad. 無所不賣
- to sell anything
- to sell everything
Trad. 強買強賣
- to force sb to buy or sell
- to trade using coercion
Trad. 賣官鬻爵
- (idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
Trad. 討好賣乖
- to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
Trad. 倒買倒賣
- to buy and sell at a profit
- to speculate
Trad. 砸鍋賣鐵
- to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
Trad. 熱炒熱賣
- lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned
- enthusiasm of the new convert
Trad. 荷蘭式拍賣
- Dutch auction
- descending-price auction
Trad. 得便宜賣乖
- to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise
- to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
Trad. 一錘子買賣
- a one-off, short-sighted deal
- a one-shot, all-out attempt
Trad. 清倉大甩賣
- clearance sale
- fire sale
Trad. 掛羊頭賣狗肉
- lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom)
- fig. to cheat
- dishonest advertising
- wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue
Trad. 懸羊頭賣狗肉
- see 掛羊頭賣狗肉|挂羊头卖狗肉[gua4 yang2 tou2 mai4 gou3 rou4]
Trad. 崽賣爺田不心疼
- lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom)
- fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it
Trad. 證券櫃檯買賣中心
- GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
Trad. 老王賣瓜，自賣自誇
- every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
- all one's geese are swans
Trad. 葫蘆裡賣的是什麼藥
- what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?
- what's going on?
Trad. 王婆賣瓜，自賣自誇
- every potter praises his own pot (idiom)
- all one's geese are swans