Definition

Noun: - Wine and women: A classical compound term referring to the dual vices of excessive indulgence in alcohol and sensual pleasures, particularly with women. It denotes a hedonistic lifestyle focused on these two harmful passions.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Kẻ ham mê tửu sắc thường hủy hoại sức khỏe. (A person addicted to wine and women often ruins their health.)
  • Câu chuyện cảnh báo về những nguy hiểm của tửu sắc. (The story warns of the dangers of debauchery involving wine and women.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a moralizing or cautionary context, particularly in classical literature, historical texts, or proverbs, to criticize a life of dissipation.
  • Nhân vật phản diện trong tiểu thuyết chìm đắm trong tửu sắc. (The villain in the novel is immersed in a life of wine and women.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đam mê tửu sắc (phrase): to be addicted to/indulge in wine and women.
  • Ông ta hoàn toàn đam mê tửu sắc. (He is completely given over to wine and women.)

Synonyms

• Debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
• Dissipation: overindulgence in sensual pleasures leading to wasted energy or health.
• Hedonism: the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good.

Related Idioms

• While "tửu sắc" itself is often used as a set phrase, it is central to the idiom "ham mê tửu sắc" (to be passionately devoted to wine and women), which encapsulates the core concept of ruinous indulgence.
  • Ham mê tửu sắc là con đường dẫn đến diệt vong. (Addiction to wine and women is a path to ruin.)

noun

1. wine and women