salt; pickle; marinate | [synonym] 腌

(jyutping) laa5

(jyutping) laa2

dirty; not clean

irritate (one's organ or skin)

grab; grasp; clutch

to bring trouble to oneself; asking for trouble | Synon.: 自己攞嚟衰; 捉蟲入屎窟 | Mand.: 自找麻煩

asking for trouble (spoken)

irritates the nose; smells or tastes intensely irritating

to describe a smell that irritates the nose and a flavour that irritates the taste buds

dirty; filthy; (in relation to ghosts, spirits etc.) unfortuitous | 骯髒; 不乾淨

dirty (unclean, especially in the context of 'dirty tricks')

dirty trick

noun; hard face, bitter face, unhappy

verb; hold of; grip; capture

dirty

adj; also written as "嗱喳", which means dirty

to investigate; to interrogate

to interrogate

to be difficult to handle

verb; difficult to deal with. When we say "揦手唔成勢", which means unable to deal with problem

collect; pack up; put away

pull (a long face)

apt to; whenever; at any time | [synonym] 郁啲, [國] 動不動

normally; on average; at least | [synonym] 一搬嚟講, 起碼

to combine; generally speaking; to make a sad face; to gather, pack

slip-shod

careless (spoken)

rash, sloppy (lit., "grasping at reeds") | [普]: 馬虎

rash; sloppy

spicy or salty (literally 'sting the tongue')

extremely expensive; high-priced

strong taste; too salty; too spicy (spoken)/expensive (spoken)

to pull a long face

verb; to pull a long face

be in a dilemma; be unable to cope with a problem; to be all over the place [Syn][粵]倒瀉籮蟹

in a dilemma; to be all over the place (spoken)

to salvage one's pride; to save face; to pretend that one did not make a mess of things, although in fact one did mess up | Lit.: "To (accidentally trip and) fall, but (to pretend) to grab some sand (as if that was the purpose of going down on the ground)" | Sometimes as 跌咗揦返拃沙 or 跌倒揦返拃沙 or 跌咗落地拿返拃沙

lit. to cover the distance of two steps with quick three steps, meaning to walk with long strides

to describe the action of someone who exposes all their private matters / secrets for all to see and not caring whether other people actually want to know about it or not.

dirty tricks [colloquial]