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Daily sentence of Chinese idiom

6 年前
chǎo yóu yú
炒 鱿 鱼
This idiom means"to be fired/to fire".Because when the squid is fried,it will furl.And it looks like someone is packing up and quitting.(这个俗语的意思是解雇,因为鱿鱼一炒就卷起来,像是卷铺盖,用来比喻解雇)
炒:to fry
鱿鱼:squid
解雇jiě gù:to fire
卷juǎn:n.&v. furl
卷铺盖juǎn pū gai:a metaphor(比喻bǐ yù),means‘‘pack up and quit’’