Thauliah køef iaxtiøh cidpea bie | You have to prime the pump. To do business you need capital. (Lit. To steal chickens you need a handful of rice.) | 偷雞也得一把米。
eeng-kaq liah satbør siøka | Have time to catch lice and watch them fight each other--don't know what to do with my leisure | 閒甲捉虱母相咬; 無所事事; 閒得無聊
gvexliah | to convince someone to do something they don't want to do; twist someone's arm to make someone do something | 硬捉; 逮捕
gvixliah | seize forcefully | 硬捉; 逮捕
khaliah | (follow for) steps | 腳掠
khimliah | catch ; arrest | 擒捉
kiapliah | to plunder; to rob; to pillage | 劫掠
kiongliah | seize violently; compel a man by strong pressure to do something much against his will | 強捉; 強擄
liah hoaxnlaang | arrest a criminal | 捕犯人
liah kauthøex | ghost driving a man to suicide or drowning; the ghost of a drowned man or suicide causing a man to be drowned or tempting a man to kill himself; so that the ghost may return to life; it cannot do so till some one thus takes its place | 找替死鬼
liah khvoarbai | measure by spans | 量一量; 測一測
liah kw zao piq | let a turtle escape to catch a tortoise ─ neglect one thing to do something else; and spoil both; Who wants everything; loses all+D1727 can not get two things at one time | 捉龜走虌; 顧此失彼
liah laang ee oexkud | quibble; catch one in an inconsistency | 挑人言語上的毛病
liah laang ee oexphang | take advantage of what a man says to confute him | 挑人言語上的毛病
liah oexphang | catch a person in his own words; trip a person up | 挑語病
liah satbør siøka | catch lice and make them to fight in order to pass the time; nothing to do | 捉蝨子相咬; 閒著無聊; 無所事事。
liah tidlo | take a short cut | 抄捷徑
liah y khvoax`cide | give a glance at him | 瞄他一下
liah | detain; arrest (a suspect) | 捉; 掠; 抓; 略估
liah-peqthox | (v) vomit | 捉白兔; 暈吐
liah-soakyn | massage sand tendon | 捉沙筋
liah-sykoad | persistent; stubborn | 掠死訣; 固執
liah-thafnhvoaai | lay down horizontally | 掠坦橫; 橫放
liah-tioxngtiarm | to grasp the essential point | 捉重點
liah`khix | to arrest, to take away with force | 捉去
liah`tiøh | catched | 捉到
liahhuix | to scrap, to tear up | 捉廢; 裂廢
liahkhiaq | breaking off and falling in masses (e g banks of a river); a breach; an opening | 裂口; 缺口
liahkhuy | to rip open | 裂開
liahphoarbin | break out and furious | 裂破面
liahphoax | to tear up; to rip up; too shred | 裂破; 撕破; 撕毀
liahtiau | to tear off | 裂掉
liahzhuix | to tatter, to rend, to rip into pieces | 裂碎
liahzhvoaf | wood has a rough edge; have a hangnail | 落銷; 刺芒; 倒刺 (指頭)
liaqliah`leq | do massage; make an estimation | 掠掠咧
liwliah | nimble; agile; quick-witted; quick at work; nimble; sporty | 扭掠; 敏捷
lofliah | capture, seize (an enemy) | 虜捉; 擄掠
mefliah | nimble; shrewd; keen | 敏捷; 猛掠; 猛烈
mehliah | fierce, furious, keen)competition) | 猛捉; 兇猛的
oaqliah | take a person prisoner; capture alive; bring'em back alive | 活捉
pixliah | be caught | 被捉
saliah | plunder | 捎掠
sitliah | lose one's prestige or reputation | 失拘
siuxliah | be arrested | 受捉; 被捕
thauliah | catch secretly; steal (a domestic animal); seize or catch secretly | 偷捉; 偷掠
thøfliah | to fish in the sea | 打魚
tuiliah | to pursue and apprehend; to chase | 追掠; 追捕
uxciah køq uxliah | have both eat and take away | 有吃擱有捉; 可吃又可帶回
zawsiøliah | chase each other | 走相捉
zawsvaliah | chase | 走相掠
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