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bayteg zhud høfsurn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Accomplishments of child can be greater than his parents. (Lit. bad bamboo tree produces good bamboo shoots.)

壞竹出好筍

bengsw zhud køtoo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

accomplished disciple owes his accomplishments to his great teacher

名師出高徒

chiongkhao-jii-zhud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

衝口而出

e cioong khiør zhud^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

The mouth is the primary source of calamities (literally) -- Careless talk may land one in trouble

禍從口出

giaam-kvoahuo zhud kauxzhat [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

A severe government produces many thieves

物極必反; 嚴官府出厚賊

gieen zhud juu safn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

A promise is a promise

言出如山

gieen zhud pid heeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

He's as good as his word. If you promised; do it

言出必行

hof cy iok zhud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

obvious; almost certain (said of the identity of a person who remains behind the scene or a criminal suspect against whom no evidence has yet been found)

呼之欲出

hø cioong khao zhud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Careless talk may get one into trouble. (Trouble comes out of the mouth.)

禍從口出

jip put'hw zhud [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

expenditure exceeding income; cannot make both ends meet

入不敷出

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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.