To be half trustful half suspicious (of someone's solvency)chắc lép nên không cho mượn tiềnbeing half trustful half suspicious, he did not lend money to him

Half-serious half-jokinggiọng chả chớta half-serious half-joking voicenói chả chớtto speak in a half-serious half-joking voice

bữa trà mặn (uống trà có kèm món ăn mặn)

(To be) half-serious and half-joking (in one's speech or behaviour)quen thói chớt nhả với phụ nữto be in the habit of being half-serious and half-joking with women, to have a half-serious and half-joking way with women

sự đối xứng; tính đối xứng