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Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To loiter or lounge idly on the streets: To stand or spend time aimlessly on public streets or at street corners, often implying a lack of productive activity or purpose.
   • To hang out on the streets: To spend time, typically in a social but idle manner, in public areas like streets or markets.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Độ này nó rất hư, chỉ đứng đường đứng chợ suốt ngày. (These days, that boy is very badly-behaved, doing nothing but lounging at street corners and market-places all day.)
  • Bọn trẻ không nên đứng đường sau giờ học. (The children shouldn't loiter on the streets after school.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is often intensified or given a broader scope through the fixed, repetitive structure "đứng đường đứng chợ" (to lounge at street corners and market-places). This emphasizes spending idle time in various public spaces.

Variants and Related Words

• Lang thang (v): to wander, to roam. This has a similar sense of being out on the streets but can imply more movement than standing idly.
• Đứng chợ (v): to lounge or loiter at the marketplace. Often used in conjunction with "đứng đường".

Synonyms

• To loiter: To stand or wait around idly without apparent purpose.
• To hang around: To spend time in a place without any specific activity.
• To idle: To spend time doing nothing.

Related Idioms

• Đứng đường đứng chợ: A common idiomatic couplet meaning to spend all one's time idling in public places, strongly implying laziness or a lack of ambition.
  • Công việc thì không làm, suốt ngày chỉ đứng đường đứng chợ. (He doesn't work, just spends all day lounging at street corners and markets.)

Học thuật

1. Lounge at treet corners
   • Đứng đường đứng chợ
     To lounge at street corners and market-places
   • Độ này nó rất hư, chỉ đứng đường đứng chợ suốt ngày
     These days, that boy is very badly-behaved, doing nothing but lounging at street corners and market-places