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id putzøx ji put'hiw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

do something by hook or by crook; not to stop half way once a thing is started

一不做二不休

id`ji [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

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DFT (3)

Id chieen, ji ieen, svaf suie, six siaolieen. 🗣 (u: Id chieen, ji ieen, svaf suie, six siaux'lieen.) 一錢，二緣，三媠，四少年。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

首先有錢 ， 其次人見人愛 ， 再來英俊 ， 接著是年輕 。 相傳舊時男性追求女性的基本條件 。 另有一說是現代人選女婿的四要件 。

Id kiafm ji kox, bofng la'ar kiafm søea khox./Id kiafm ji kox, bof la'ar kiafm søea khox. 🗣 (u: Id kiafm ji kox, bofng laa'ar kiafm sea khox. Id kiafm ji kox, bofng/bof laa'ar kiafm søea khox.) 一兼二顧，摸蜊仔兼洗褲。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

兩者兼顧 ， 摸蜆兼洗褲子 。「 摸蜊仔 」 是從前常見的副業 ， 在溪裡摸拾蜆貝 ， 可作為佐菜 ， 也可賣錢 ， 因在水中蹲著工作 ， 褲子常浸水 ， 好像順便洗了褲子一樣 。 意謂一舉兩得 。

Id tai chyn, ji tai piao, svaf tai m bad liawliao. 🗣 (u: Id tai chyn, ji tai piao, svaf tai m bad liao'liao.) 一代親，二代表，三代毋捌了了。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

一代至親 ， 二代表親 ， 三代全都不認識 。 第一代是骨肉至親的兄弟姐妹 ， 第二代子孫彼此以姑表 、 姨表來相互稱呼 ， 到了第三代就彼此不認識了 ， 意為親戚間的往來 ， 一代比一代疏遠 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association. Syllable segmentation in progress.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.