MDBG Mobile Chinese English Dictionary (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

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清酒	qīng jiǔ	sake (Japanese rice wine)
念旧	niàn jiù	to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
抬杠	tái gàng	to bicker / to argue for the sake of arguing / to carry on poles (together with sb else) / to carry a coffin on poles
功亏一篑	gōng kuī yī kuì	lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)
为着	wèi zhe	in order to / because of / for the sake of
薄面	bó miàn	my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
姑妄言之	gū wàng yán zhī	to just talk for the sake of talking
任侠	rèn xiá	chivalrous / helping the weak for the sake of justice
为的是	wèi de shì	for the sake of / for the purpose of
空耳	kōng ěr	to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
看在	kàn zài	(in the expression 看在 + ... + 的份上) for the sake of ...; considering ...
死要面子活受罪	sǐ yào miàn zi huó shòu zuì	to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
以利于	yǐ lì yú	for the sake of / in order to
不看僧面看佛面	bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn	lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom) / fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
欲取姑与	yù qǔ - gū yǔ	(idiom) to make concessions for the sake of future gains
日本米酒	Rì běn mǐ jiǔ	Japanese rice wine / sake
为五斗米折腰	wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhé yāo	(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
猎隼	liè sǔn	(bird species of China) saker falcon (Falco cherrug)