dozen

smash

from; to; toward

{-- jp: daa2 | hp: da3 --}

make, do, get, fetch, play, buy, etc.

{-- jp: daa1 | hp: da2 --}

strike; hit; beat

fight; attack

Half a dozen - six of something, one dozen (一打) being twelve things.

lighter

slap one's own face

自打耳光

contradict oneself; self-contradictory; mutually exclusive

literally: to slap one's own face; to contradict oneself

derby (as in a competition or race)

Derby; Hong Kong Derby

beat brutally

to snore | Syn.: 打呼 | 粵: 打鼻鼾

update a passbook; get a bank statement

verb; update bank passbook

to play mahjong

打麻將

(verb) to play mah-jong

to play a game of Chinese dominoes

stormy; to perform a body or cell search in prison

(verb) to be hit by a typhoon;

get the glad eye; to wink at someone

giving out hints though eyes; to wink at

to play in a band

to hit hard

working-class people; a junior employee

chowder (as a loanword)

Chowder

damned, condemned, lightening-stricken after breaking one's vow

being hit by heaven and being struck by lightning, it means to die in a horrible way

to flirt

to whip, to lash, to flog

to sleep on one's back

a sleeping position, to sleep on one's back

spending wisely; assess things carefully; be prudent in one's spending; shrewd consideration of self-interest

plough around; to find out

to be unable to find sb after making a big production of it

to be unable to find something even beat the gong; search everywhere but find nothing

未見其利先見其害

pay a heavy price to pursue an objective

to interrupt; to cut short