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gieen tøf pid sid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

One is bound to make a slip of the lip if he talks too much

言多必失

høea sid`khix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

the fire has gone out

火熄了

mxsi-sid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

puun-hof sid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

blow out (a candle)

吹熄

Saeofng sid mar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

look for the blessing in disguise (A phrase from a story in which an old man named "Sai-ong" lost his horse but the horse returned with another horse upon which his son could ride. Then, his son fell from the horse and broke his leg, because of this injury the son couldn't go into the battle in which all his comrades were slain. This phrase is used to comfort a person who is in distress.)

塞翁失馬

sid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

go out or die out like a fire or light; be blown out

熄

sid beng'u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

lose reputation or good name

失名譽

sid binsym [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

lose the support of the people; alienate the masses

失民心

sid bixnzuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

lose face; disgrace oneself

失面子

sid jii hogteg [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

lost and found again

失而復得

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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.