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燈dang1神san4

dang1 san4dēng shéninferred

English

  1. a sarcastic term of "beacon light": a person that is so bad at making predictions and thus that person becomes a counter reference; to offer predictions for something but the opposite ends up being true; literally: the god of light
  2. genie

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 「指路明燈」嘅反諷;形容一個人有好差嘅預測推算能力,應驗嘅事情往往係預測嘅相反,所以俾人當做反操作指標/逆參考點。
  2. 神話故事中嘅精靈,居住係神燈入面,會實現人嘅願望。

Examples

  • 蕭生真係燈神嚟㗎,十年嚟冇一次估中。

    Mr. Siu is such a master in wrongly predicting things that he has never been right in last 10 years. ----

  • 我都想要阿拉丁隻燈神嚟實現我嘅願望。

    I want Aladdin's genie to grant my wishes too.

Sources: rime-cantonese, synthesized, words.hk

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