Definition

1. Adverb:
   • To get it over with, to be done with it: Used to express the speaker's desire to quickly finish or dispose of something, often with a sense of impatience, annoyance, or finality. It implies an action taken to resolve or eliminate a bothersome matter.
2. Noun:
   • Sarcophagus, outer coffin: A stone coffin, often decorated and inscribed, used in ancient times to hold a coffin and the mummy. In a Vietnamese context, it can refer to the outer layer of a coffin.

Usage Examples

• Adverb:
  • Tôi mệt quá, ngủ quách một giấc cho khỏe. (I'm so tired, I'll just sleep to get it over with and feel better.)
  • Ăn quách miếng bánh này đi kẻo hỏng. (Just eat this piece of cake to be done with it before it spoils.)
• Noun:
  • Các nhà khảo cổ đã tìm thấy một chiếc quách bằng đá trong lăng mộ. (Archaeologists found a stone sarcophagus in the tomb.)
  • Chiếc quan tài được đặt trong một chiếc quách lớn. (The coffin was placed inside a large outer coffin.)

Advanced Usage

• Used for emphasis in imperative or suggestive sentences: The adverb "quách" adds a strong, sometimes brusque, tone of urgency or resolution to a suggestion or command.
  • Nói quách sự thật ra đi! (Just tell the truth and be done with it!)
  • Bán quách mảnh đất ấy đi cho xong. (Just sell that plot of land to be finished with it.)

Variants and Related Words

• Quách quách (adv): A reduplicated form, sometimes used for added emphasis on the immediacy or rashness of the action.
  • Anh ấy uống quách quách một hơi hết ly bia. (He downed the glass of beer in one go to be done with it.)
• Áo quan (n): Coffin. This is the more common, standard word for coffin, while "quách" as a noun is more specific or literary.

Synonyms

• Adverb: Cho xong, cho rồi, một thể. (To finish it, to be done with it, all at once.)
• Noun: Sarcophagus, outer coffin, stone coffin.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Làm quách đi: A common phrase meaning "Just do it (and be done)."
  • Sợ gì, làm quách đi! (What are you afraid of? Just do it!)

Related Idioms

• Quẳng/quăng/quất quách đi: Idiomatic phrases meaning "to throw away/discard something to be rid of it." They emphasize disposal.
  • Đồ cũ rích rồi, quẳng quách nó đi. (It's completely old, just throw it away.)
• Ăn quách nói quách: To speak bluntly and directly without concern for politeness or consequence.
  • Tính anh ấy ăn quách nói quách, đôi khi mất lòng người khác. (He has a blunt way of speaking, which sometimes offends people.)

1. Sarcophagus, outer coffin
2. In order To have done with it
   • Đốt quách quyển sách dở ấy cho xong
     To burn that bad book and have done with it