Definition

1. Noun:
   • Conjugal love, marital bond: Refers to the love and bond between husband and wife, often used in a poetic or literary context.
   • Minute details, fine points: Used metaphorically to describe the smallest, most intricate details of a matter or situation, as fine as a strand of hair or silk.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Conjugal love):

  • Họ đã cùng nhau trải qua bao thăng trầm của tóc tơ. (They have weathered the ups and downs of conjugal life together.)
  • Câu chuyện kể về mối tóc tơ đẹp đẽ giữa họ. (The story tells of the beautiful marital bond between them.)

• Noun (Minute details):

  • Anh ấy kể lại sự việc từng tóc tơ một. (He recounted the incident down to the finest detail.)
  • Phải xem xét vấn đề đến từng tóc tơ. (We must examine the problem in every minute detail.)

Advanced Usage

• "kể hết tóc tơ": to tell or explain something in exhaustive detail, leaving nothing out.
  • Nhân chứng đã kể hết tóc tơ cho cảnh sát. (The witness told the police everything down to the last detail.)

Variants and Related Words

• Kẽ tóc chân tơ (idiomatic phrase): Literally "the part in the hair and the root of the silk"; an idiom with a very similar meaning to the second definition of , emphasizing extreme meticulousness in examining details.
  • Công ty kiểm toán kiểm tra sổ sách kẽ tóc chân tơ. (The auditing company examines the books with a fine-tooth comb.)

Synonyms

• Tình nghĩa vợ chồng: conjugal affection.
• Chi tiết nhỏ nhặt: trivial/minor details.
• Tỉ mỉ: meticulous, detailed.

Related Idioms

• "Kẽ tóc chân tơ": (See "Variants and Related Words" above). This is the most directly related idiom.
• "Sợi tóc chẻ làm tư": Literally "to split a hair into four"; meaning to be overly meticulous or to nitpick.

noun

1. conjugal love