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

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

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

(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

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