cá nước
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Definition
- Noun:
- Fish and water: The literal meaning refers to the two separate entities of fish and water.
- A close, inseparable, and mutually beneficial relationship: A metaphorical meaning describing a bond as essential and interdependent as that between fish and water. This is the primary and most common usage.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Literal):
- Môi trường sống của sinh vật bao gồm cá nước và cây cối. (The living environment of organisms includes fish and water and trees.)
- Noun (Metaphorical):
- Quân với dân như cá với nước. (The army and the people are like fish and water.)
- Mối quan hệ cá nước giữa lãnh đạo và nhân dân là rất quan trọng. (The fish-water relationship between the leadership and the people is very important.)
Advanced Usage
- "tình cá nước": Literally "fish-water sentiment/feeling," used to describe a deep, inseparable bond, often in a poetic or emotional context.
- Họ có với nhau một tình cá nước sâu nặng. (They share a profound fish-water bond with each other.)
- The phrase is almost always used in the comparative structure "như cá với nước" (like fish with water) to emphasize the inseparability of the relationship.
Variants and Related Words
- Gắn bó (adj/verb): To be attached, closely connected. A common synonym for the metaphorical sense of interdependence.
- Khăng khít (adj): Intimate, very close (describing a relationship).
- Mật thiết (adj): Close-knit, intimate (describing ties or relations).
Synonyms
- Quan hệ cộng sinh (n): Symbiotic relationship.
- Gắn bó máu thịt (idiom): To be bonded as flesh and blood; inseparable.
Related Idioms
- Như cá gặp nước: Literally "like a fish encountering water," meaning to be in one's ideal element, to thrive perfectly in a situation.
- Với công việc mới, anh ấy như cá gặp nước. (With his new job, he is like a fish in water.)
- Cá chậu chim lồng: Literally "fish in a bowl, bird in a cage," meaning to be trapped or confined, lacking freedom. This idiom presents a contrasting image to the natural freedom implied in "cá nước."
- Fish and water; close relationship
- tình quân dân cá nướcthe fish-water relationship between the people and the army