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Dictionary entry

làm dâu trăm họ

làm dâu trăm họ means to satisfy or please everyone, often implying difficulty or impossibility in Vietnamese. Review definitions, example sentences, and related dictionary entries.

Definitions

Meanings

  1. 01

    to satisfy or please everyone, often implying difficulty or impossibility

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Lexical details

Part of speech
Verb
CEFR
B2

Usage notes

Fixed idiom. Literally 'to be a daughter-in-law to a hundred families'; used to describe the near-impossible task of satisfying everyone. Typically carries negative or realistic connotation. Frequently follows comparison verbs giống như or ví như.

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Examples

Usage in context

3 examples

01

Nghề giáo viên thường được ví như làm dâu trăm họ họ phải chăm sóc dạy dỗ rất nhiều học sinh đến từ các gia đình khác nhau.

Teaching is often compared to pleasing everyone because teachers have to take care of and educate students from many different families.

02

Công việc làm quản lý giống như phải làm dâu trăm họ, không dễ khiến mọi người hài lòng.

Being a manager is like trying to please everyone, it's not easy to make everyone happy.

03

Làm dâu trăm họ là một thử thách lớn khi bạn phải đối mặt với nhiều ý kiến khác nhau.

Trying to please everyone is a big challenge when you have to deal with many different opinions.