What is Gye-young-bae (Feb 13, 2013)
A few weeks ago, my dad brought home something he got from his friend. It was a wooden box which had some Chinese writings on the top. Obviously the writing looked like gibberish to me. My dad told me it said “Gye-youngb-bae”. “Gye-young” literally means “caution against overflow” and “bae” means a liquor cup. Inside the box, there was a strange-looking porcelain kettle with a cup and saucer as one unit. Gye-young-bae is not your ordinary cup. When this cup is filled more than 70% with liquor, the whole content mysteriously disappears, it is purposely built that way. The cup symbolized an idea of alerting against the endless greed of human beings.
Pattern Practice
I can’t believe you didn’t bring home anything!
Don’t listen to that gibberish
She was talking gibberish to them
I don’t want to hear your gibberish
The Nile overflowed its banks again this year
An overflow of the River Nile inundated the whole city
The water in the cup overflowed
I’ve seen a lot of strange-looking sea creatures there
You can see a strange-looking castle over there.
The Yangtze River mysteriously turned Red
It is purposely built that way
This page is purposely left blank
He purposely withheld a crucial piece of information from me.
He purposely didn’t call you.
ｅxpression of the Day
You know what? I’m going to be a father
Wow! This calls for a celebration! Congratulations!
Thanks. Let’s have a bottle of bubbly
Good call!
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