đếm chác
Definition
- Verb (derogatory):
- To count and recount money obsessively, especially a small or insignificant amount, implying pettiness, miserliness, or an excessive focus on trivial sums.
Usage Examples
- (He keeps counting and recounting just a few dong.)
- (Don't sit there counting every single penny like that.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is inherently critical and mocking. It is used to scorn someone for being overly preoccupied with small financial gains or losses, highlighting a lack of generosity or a narrow-minded focus on money.
Word Nuances
- Connotation: The word carries a strong negative and sarcastic tone. It criticizes not just the act of counting, but the underlying attitude of stinginess or placing undue importance on a meager amount.
- Register: It is colloquial and derogatory.
Synonyms
- To nickel-and-dime: to focus on very small amounts of money.
- To pinch pennies (derogatory): to be extremely frugal in a petty way.
- To count coppers: an older idiom for counting small change obsessively.
Related Idioms
- Bủn xỉn: stingy, miserly. This is a direct synonym for the character trait implied by "đếm chác."
- Keo kiệt: parsimonious, tight-fisted. Another term describing the miserly behavior associated with the action.
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(mỉa) Count and recount
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Có mấy đồng bạc mà đếm chác mãiTo count and recount a few dong in one's possession
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