khất lần
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Definition
- Verb:
- To keep on putting off (a debt or obligation): To repeatedly delay or postpone the fulfillment of a promise, especially the repayment of money, by making a series of excuses or new, later deadlines.
- To procrastinate persistently: To habitually defer an action or decision through continuous, evasive delays.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Anh ta khất lần khoản nợ đã nhiều tháng. (He has been putting off the debt for many months.)
- Đừng khất lần việc trả sách cho thư viện. (Don't keep putting off returning the book to the library.)
- Họ cứ khất lần mà không chịu ký hợp đồng. (They keep procrastinating and refuse to sign the contract.)
Advanced Usage
- The term strongly implies a negative judgment, suggesting dishonesty, unreliability, or a lack of intention to ever fulfill the obligation. It is often used in contexts of financial debt, but can apply to any promised action.
- "khất lần khất lửa": An intensified, colloquial reduplication meaning to defer something endlessly with one flimsy excuse after another.
- Công ty đó khất lần khất lửa việc thanh toán. (That company keeps dodging payment with endless excuses.)
Variants and Related Words
Khất (v): To ask for a delay or extension (a more neutral term for requesting a postponement).
- Tôi muốn khất nợ thêm một tuần. (I want to defer the debt for one more week.)
Trì hoãn (v): To delay, to postpone (a more general, formal term without the strong connotation of evasion).
Synonyms
- To stall: To delay, especially by being evasive.
- To keep deferring: To postpone repeatedly.
- To use delaying tactics: To employ methods intended to cause delay.
Related Idioms
- Khất nợ đáo lệ: To keep postponing a debt until the next payment deadline arrives (describes a cycle of endless deferral).
- Lão ấy khất nợ đáo lệ, chẳng bao giờ trả đúng hẹn. (That old man keeps rolling over his debt and never pays on time.)
- Keep on putting off (paying a debt)