Definition

Noun: - Axe: A hand tool with a heavy, sharp blade set perpendicular to a long handle, used for chopping, splitting, or shaping wood. - Hatchet: A small, short-handled axe intended for use with one hand.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Người thợ dùng rìu để đẽo tượng gỗ. (The craftsman used an axe to carve the wooden statue.)
  • Họ chặt cây bằng một chiếc rìu cũ. (They chopped down the tree with an old axe.)
  • Anh ấy mang theo một chiếc rìu nhỏ khi đi cắm trại. (He carried a small hatchet when he went camping.)

Advanced Usage

• "múa rìu qua mắt thợ": An idiom literally meaning "to brandish an axe before a carpenter's eyes." It is used to describe the act of showing off a skill or knowledge in front of a true expert, implying foolishness or arrogance.
  • Giảng lý thuyết ấy cho giáo sư chẳng khác nào múa rìu qua mắt thợ. (Explaining that theory to the professor is like brandishing an axe before a carpenter's eyes.)

Variants and Related Words

• Rìu chiến (n): Battle axe; a type of axe historically used as a weapon.
  • Chiến binh cầm rìu chiến. (The warrior held a battle axe.)

Synonyms

• Axe: A tool for chopping wood.
• Hatchet: A small axe.
• Tomahawk: A type of light axe, historically associated with Indigenous peoples of North America.

Related Idioms

• Múa rìu qua mắt thợ: To display a skill before an expert; to teach a fish how to swim.

noun

1. axe; hack