bay biến
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Definition
- Adverb (colloquial):
- Categorically, flatly, outright: Used to emphasize a complete, absolute, and often blunt denial, refusal, or disappearance. It intensifies the action, suggesting it is done without a trace of hesitation or doubt.
- To vanish without a trace: Describes something disappearing completely and suddenly.
Usage Examples
- Adverb:
- Nó đánh vỡ cái lọ mà cứ chối bay biến. (He broke the vase but keeps denying it outright.)
- Tôi hỏi về khoản tiền đó, anh ta từ chối bay biến. (I asked about that sum of money, and he refused flatly.)
- Verb phrase (describing disappearance):
- Nghe tiếng cảnh sát, bọn trộm bay biến hết. (Hearing the police, the thieves vanished without a trace.)
Advanced Usage
- The phrase is often used in informal or emphatic speech to convey frustration or strong emphasis on the absoluteness of an action, particularly denial.
- It can function idiomatically to modify verbs of negation (chối - deny, từ chối - refuse) or verbs of disappearance.
Variants and Related Words
- Bay (v): to fly; to vanish quickly.
- Biến (v): to disappear, to vanish. The combination "bay biến" is an alliterative compound that reinforces the meaning.
Synonyms
- Categorically: without qualification; absolutely.
- Flatly: in a direct and definite way, especially in refusal.
- Outright: altogether; completely.
- To vanish into thin air: to disappear completely.
Related Idioms
- Chối bay chối biến: an even more emphatic, reduplicative form meaning "to deny strenuously and absolutely."
- Bị bắt quả tang nhưng hắn vẫn chối bay chối biến. (Caught red-handed, but he still denied it strenuously.)
- Like blazes, like hell
- Chối bay biếnTo deny like blazes (like hell)