tuồn tuột

Nước chảy tuồn tuột từ trên cao xuống.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Smoothly and straight down/through: Describes something moving or flowing in a continuous, unobstructed, and straight line, often with a sense of speed or ease.
   • Completely gone / all slipped away: Used figuratively to indicate that something has been entirely lost, used up, or has disappeared without hindrance.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nước mắt cô ấy chảy tuồn tuột. (Her tears flowed straight down.)
  • Con đường tuồn tuột ra biển. (The road runs straight down to the sea.)
  • Tiền tiêu tuồn tuột trong một tháng. (The money was all gone within a month.)

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used to emphasize the uninterrupted, direct, and sometimes rapid nature of a movement or loss. It carries a connotation of something being long, straight, and without obstacles.

Variants and Related Words

• Tuồn (v): to slip away, to leak out.
  • Thông tin tuồn ra ngoài. (The information leaked out.)

Synonyms

• Straight down: in a direct, vertical line.
• Uninterruptedly: without stopping or being interrupted.
• Completely: entirely; wholly (in the figurative sense of loss).

Related Idioms

• Tuồn tuột như nước đổ lá khoai: (To disappear/slip away as quickly as water off a taro leaf) – Meaning something is lost or disappears very easily and completely without a trace.
  • Cơ hội tuồn tuột như nước đổ lá khoai. (The opportunity slipped away completely.)