by Steeeeeveeeeeeee » Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:26 pm
ot krup teuk, "not enough water" This phrase generally refers to plants that are not completely whole or are mal-formed in some way due to a deficiency of water. With people however, the phrase means "stupid". For example: samrai otkrupteuk- stupid hillbilly.
Meul neaknaamuey doch kbai meul turatua. To look stupidly with total non comprehension at some body or something. Literally "to look at someone like a water buffalo looking at television.
There are also many idioms dealing, not surprisingly, with poverty. One of my favorites,
rosi ban m'ke, m'ke refers to a bird's crop. "To earn a lving from one crop to the next. Here, again, crop does not mean harvest. To live from one day to the next or to scratch out a living.
Toat kchhawl- "to kick the wind" to be unemployed
tweer kaa peak kandaal kuot- to work half assed, ""to work with the shirt covering only half of the ass.
http://khamerican.blogspot.com/2008/01/ ... dioms.html
ot krup teuk, "not enough water" This phrase generally refers to plants that are not completely whole or are mal-formed in some way due to a deficiency of water. With people however, the phrase means "stupid". For example: samrai otkrupteuk- stupid hillbilly.
Meul neaknaamuey doch kbai meul turatua. To look stupidly with total non comprehension at some body or something. Literally "to look at someone like a water buffalo looking at television.
There are also many idioms dealing, not surprisingly, with poverty. One of my favorites,
rosi ban m'ke, m'ke refers to a bird's crop. "To earn a lving from one crop to the next. Here, again, crop does not mean harvest. To live from one day to the next or to scratch out a living.
Toat kchhawl- "to kick the wind" to be unemployed
tweer kaa peak kandaal kuot- to work half assed, ""to work with the shirt covering only half of the ass.
http://khamerican.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-cambodian-idioms.html