lo bò trắng răng

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Vietnamese

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Etymology

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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.

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Verb

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lo trắng răng

  1. (idiomatic) to needlessly worry