lo bò trắng răng
/lɔ˧˧ ʔɓɔ˨˩ t͡ɕaŋ˧˦ zaŋ˧˧/
VIETNAMCA → TR
Tanım
•to needlessly worry
Etimoloji
lo (“worry”) + bò (“cow”) + trắng (“white”) + răng (“tooth”). Literally, "to worry that a cow's teeth are white". Most Kinh people in the old days, regardless of status, dyed their teeth black. This idiom implies that a person feels uneasy that their cow's teeth are not dyed, although it is a livestock, not human.