Top 10 Tweets of April

Another month has flown by and that means we've tweeted another 20 or so language tweets via our Twitter account @FluentFlix. As always, our aim is to provide you guys with useful, relevant, yet fun and interesting, words and expressions that stick. Oh, and how do we know what's relevant? We find our words via FluentFlix content which all comes from native Chinese language videos! Pretty good formula if you ask us.

So, our Top 10 Tweets of April based on re-tweets and general awesomeness are as follows:

10. 白手起家 - 4/23
(bái shǒu qǐ jiā): to start from scratch and build one's fortune.
要想白手起家，就必须能吃苦，而且还要有毅力。

9. 叫嚣 / 叫囂 - 4/13
(jiào xiāo): to clamor; to cry out in protest.
他驾车在路上撞伤了人，不仅不道歉，反而叫嚣道："我爸是公安局长，我不怕！"

8. 逗 - 4/6
(dòu): to tease; to play with.
下班回家，他都要逗一会儿他刚出生的儿子。

7. 一念之差 - 4/2
(yī niàn zhī chā): a momentary slip; a bad decision made in a moment of weakness.
他落到今天的地步，完全是由于当初的一念之差。

6. 炒鱿鱼 / 炒魷魚 - 4/4
(chǎo yóu yú): to be fired from one's job.
由于经常迟到，他被老板炒鱿鱼了。

5. 独一无二 / 獨一無二 - 4/5
(dú yī wú èr): unique; unlike anything else.
这块钻石是世界上独一无二的。

4. 有助于 / 有助於 - 4/10
(yǒu zhù yú): to be conducive to; to be helpful to.
这样做有助于别人更好地了解你的动机。

3. 吃软饭 / 吃軟飯 - 4/11
(chī ruǎn fàn): to live off of a woman; to rely on a woman for financial support.
他什么事情都要靠他老婆，同事们都笑他，说他是吃软饭的。

2. 想得美  - 4/26
(xiǎng de měi): "you wish"; "nice try".
你想跟我谈恋爱？想得美！

 

And our number 1 tweet of the month is…

放电 / 放電 - 4/3
(fàngdiàn): to attract or seduce a person with a look (lit. to give off electricity)
你看，对面那男的在对你放电啊！他是不是对你有意思？

 

There were quite a few good ones in there, (especially number 2) but 放电 / 放電 takes the cake for us. You're not going to find 放电 / 放電 in most dictionaries just yet because it'sa relatively new term. It's fun because a) it equates electricity to attraction and seduction –  which is not only an interesting visual, but one we think most people can relate to (That girls electric! …No?), and b) it describes something that's otherwise only describable as 'that look', which just isn't as cool of a way to say it.

What about you? Have you bumped into any of these terms? What's your favorite?

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