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Definition: A way to sound more certain and less hesitant when your friend/boyfriend/girlfriend is asking you whether you want to do something with him or her.
Usage: E.g. 朋友: 聽日去唔去睇戲呀？ 你: Depends啦。
E.g. 女朋友: 係咪聽日去shopping呀? 你: Depends啦。
E.g. 女朋友: 係咪聽日去shopping呀? 你: 睇下點啦。 *啪！*
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that refers to something that is so funny that one can die from having too much laughter.
Usage: E.g. Laugh die me喇！真係好搞笑呀。（笑死我）Synonym: 笑死我Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that refers to something that is like an eyesore to oneself because he or she cannot withstand it anymore.
Usage: E.g. 你地做成日都打爛野。我真係no eye see喇。（冇眼睇）Synonym: 冇眼睇Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/
Definition: A convenient English phrase used by native Hong Kongers to avoid going into negative detail about someone who does not understand you.
Usage: E.g. 朋友: 喂，你講野好唔make sense喎。你：真的嗎？
E.g. 我覺得你講野make sense，不過我唔係太明。
E.g. 你講野都唔make sense，廢鬼事再聽你講。
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use to strongly express promise in doing something when the other person does not believe in you. (批個頭比你當凳坐)
Usage: E.g. If I don't return my money back to you by tomorrow, then I cut my head and let you sit on it as a chair!!!Synonym: 批個頭比你當凳坐Reference: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?3,139574,139575
Definition: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers like to use to refer to a distinctive characteristic by which someone or something can be identified.
Usage: E.g. 中英夾雜絕對係香港人signature。
E.g. 呢碟菜就係呢間餐廳既signature。Synonym: 標誌，招牌菜Reference: https://www.threads.net/@hongtonese/post/C8zlfwZytLZ
Definition: A generic term for a number of equivalent Cantonese words used to avoid absolute certainty.
Usage: E.g. 件貨suppose今日到。(預期-expectedly/predictably)
E.g. 我suppose你係岩既。 (假設-guess)
E.g. 警察係suppose要保護市民。 (應該-should)
