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Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing idiom used by native Hong Kongers to describe a situation where you cannot force someone into seeking help if they do not accept it.
Usage: E.g. I offered to help him with his homework but he never sent it over. Oh well... if the cow doesn't drink water, you cannot press the cow's head down.
Synonym: 牛唔飲水唔撳得牛頭低
Reference: https://www.localiiz.com/post/culture-local-stories-popular-cantonese-idioms
Definition: (adj.) A code-mixing term used to describe someone or something as being very trendy.
Usage: E.g. 哇，你今日著得好IN呀。 E.g. 聽返D流行音樂，咁先夠IN架嘛。 E.g. 做後生仔要夠IN先得架嘛。
Reference: https://www.gushiciku.cn/dl/0pydp/zh-hk
Definition: (adj.) A code-mixing term used to describe someone or something as being very trendy.
Usage: E.g. 哇，你今日著得好IN呀。 E.g. 聽返D流行音樂，咁先夠IN架嘛。 E.g. 做後生仔要夠IN先得架嘛。
Synonym: 潮
Definition: Derived from '寸' in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone who is cocky or arrogant.
Usage: E.g. 知道你叻喇！不過洗唔洗咁inch呀？（in廚)
Synonym: 寸
Reference: https://www.hk01.com/熱爆話題/159516/konglish-港式英語鬧爆疑似第三者-網民-香港人先會明嘅英文
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe people who are really just minding their own business but not necessarily alone or single.
Usage: E.g. 呢間bar啲人點呀？係唔係個個都好individual咁樣呀？ (How are the people in this bar? Are they all really just minding their own business?)
Synonym: 單獨
Reference: https://www.threads.com/@matthew_lam1116/post/DAcSyqdScem?hl=zh-hk
Definition: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to refer to a meeting invitation sent out by the MS Outlook software.
Usage: E.g. 係咪聽日想開會傾呢樣野？唔該send個invitation黎先。
Synonym: 邀請
Definition: A code-mixing term that westernised Hong Kongers often use to ask someone to go to an event in a polite and semi-formal manner.
Usage: E.g. A: 可唔可以叫埋我個friend黎？B: 好呀，等我invite埋佢啦。(A: Can you get my friend to come as well? B: Sure, let me invite him.)
Synonym: 邀請
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2051830/page/2
Definition: A Kongish code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use to refer to treating someone a meal, such as lunch or dinner.
Usage: E.g. Can you invite you to dinner today?
Synonym: 請
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkP4AAqaKTk
Definition: The Hong Kong way of referring to the invoice sent to customers, as '發票' is rarely used.
Usage: E.g. 張invoice send左比個客未呀？ E.g. 喂，你咁快send左invoice黎係咪想追我數呀？
Synonym: 發票
Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to the formal document sent by a seller to a buyer as a request for payment, which is be differentiated from a receipt.
Usage: E.g. 你俾完錢收到嘅果張係叫收據，係receipt，但啲大陸人係統一叫發票。(What you receive after payment should be called a receipt, but mainland Chinese people also refer to it as an invoice.)
Synonym: 發票; 請款單
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2808375/page/1