1. 係威係势：装腔作势，好象煞有介事的样子。

1. Xiangwei xiangshi: Pretentiously acting as if one is very important.

2. 好声好气：心平气和地。

2. Good temper: in a calm and peaceful manner.

3. 整古做怪：做小动作，做鬼脸。

3. Make a fuss or act up: Do little tricks or make faces.

4. 一天不练手脚慢，两天不练丢一半，三天不练门外汉，四天不练瞪眼看。

4. Not practicing for a day, your hands and feet grow slow; not practicing for two days, you lose half your skills; not practicing for three days, you become an outsider; not practicing for four days, you just watch in amazement.

5. 八九不离十：几乎接近（实际情况）。

5. Eight or nine out of ten: almost close to (the actual situation).

6. 一亩三分地：形容所属地盘，势力范围。

6. A mu and three fen of land: A phrase used to describe one's territory or sphere of influence.

7. 快刀斩乱麻：喻以果断迅速的手段解决纷繁复杂的问题。

7. Cut the grass with a sharp knife: A metaphor for solving complex and tangled problems with decisive and swift measures.

8. 鬼五马六：乱七八糟的，见不得人的。

8. "Ghost five horses six": A mess, something that's not fit to be seen.

9. 破罐子破摔：比喻有了缺点、错误，不加改正，任其自流，甚至向更坏的方向发展。?>

9. "Kicking the bucket": This idiom比喻 when one has faults or makes mistakes, they do not correct them but instead let them continue, even allowing them to worsen.

10. 手滕脚震：手脚发抖，惊慌失措。

10. Hands and feet trembling: Shaking hands and feet, flustered and disoriented.

11. 窿窿啦啦：指角落的，阴暗的地方。

11. Doolally: Refers to a corner or a dark place.

12. 贴错门神：形容两人互不理睬。

12. Misplaced Door Gods: A phrase used to describe two people who ignore each other.

13. 赶鸭子上架：比喻被迫去做不得已的、自己力所不能及的事情。

13. To force a duck onto a shelf: A metaphor for being forced to do something that is unwilling, beyond one's capability, or not within one's power.

14. 不下水，一辈子不会游泳；不扬帆，一辈子不会撑船。

14. If you never dive into the water, you will never learn to swim; if you never hoist the sail, you will never learn to row a boat.

15. 一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。

15. One monk carries water to drink, two monks carry water to drink together, but three monks have no water to drink.

16. 滚红滚绿：捣乱、胡闹、胡扯、瞎说。

16. Rolling red and green: making trouble, acting foolishly, talking nonsensically, or making idle talk.

17. 也文也武：逞强，逞能耐。

17. Both literary and martial: show off one's strength and ability.

18. 身水身汗：满身都是汗，形容很累。

18. All sweat: Covered in sweat all over, describing someone who is very tired.

19. 零星落索：相当于普通话的七零八落。

19. Scattered and disorganized: Equivalent to "seven and eight" in Mandarin Chinese.

20. 小巫见大巫：喻相形见拙，远远不如。

20. Meeting a wizard with a great wizard: A metaphor for being outshone, far inferior.

21. 唔臭米气：指幼稚、无知、不近人情。

21. Not smelly rice smell: Refers to being immature, ignorant, and unfeeling.

22. 赶鸭子上架：喻勉强别人做力所不及的事。

22. To force a duck onto a fence: A metaphor for forcing someone to do something that they are not capable of doing.

23. 似模似样：看起来很象样。

23. Look impressive: It appears quite impressive.

24. 一问三不知：是说对所问的问题一无所知。

24. "One question and three unknowns": It means that the person knows nothing about the question asked.

25. 一物降一物，卤水点豆腐；蝎子怕公鸡，秧苗怕蝼蛄。

25. As the saying goes, "one thing defeats another; brine sets tofu; scorpions fear the rooster, and seedlings fear the mole cricket."

26. 心大心细：心里拿不定主意，不知道如何是好。

26. Heart big, heart meticulous: Uncertain in the heart, not knowing what to do.

27. 空口说白话：形容光说话不做事，或光说而没有行动。

27. Talk without action: Used to describe someone who talks a lot but does nothing, or talks without taking action.

28. 阴沟里翻船：比喻在有把握的地方出了问题。

28. Capsize in a drainage ditch: A metaphor for having problems in a place where one feels confident.

29. 天时暑热：大热天，天气炎热。

29. Timing of the hot weather: On very hot days, the weather is extremely hot.

30. 贵人多忘事：讽显贵者不念旧交，亦嘲人健忘。

30. "The rich often forget things": A jest at the noble for not remembering old friends, also a satire on people for being forgetful.

31. 换汤不换药：比喻只改了形式而实质没变。

31. Change the sauce but not the medicine: A metaphor for changing the form but not the essence.

32. 十八般武艺：泛指各种技能、方法。

32. The十八般武艺: refers to various skills and methods.

33. 古灵精怪：古古怪怪的。

33. Curious and whimsical: Unusually strange and peculiar.

34. 乌灯黑火：黑漆漆地一片。

34. Black lanterns and dark fires: It's pitch black everywhere.

35. 黑古勒特：黑不溜秋的。

35. Heigulete: Dark and lanky.