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- prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed
Trad. 牢籠
- cage
- trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals)
- fig. bonds (of wrong ideas)
- shackles (of past misconceptions)
- to trap
- to shackle
Trad. 吃牢飯
- (coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
Trad. 滿腹牢騷
- lit. belly full of complaints (idiom)
- discontent
- always moaning and complaining
Trad. 畫地為牢
- lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom)
- fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
Trad. 亡羊補牢
- lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)
- fig. to act belatedly
- better late than never
- to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
Trad. 嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢
- a youth without facial hair cannot be relied upon (proverb)
Trad. 嘴上無毛，辦事不牢
- see 嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢|嘴上没毛，办事不牢[zui3 shang4 mei2 mao2 , ban4 shi4 bu4 lao2]