香港中英夾雜字典

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone who is useless and is a waste of money to raise him or her up. (食濕米 or 食塞米)

用法: E.g. You cannot get anything done at all today? Do you eat wet rice? (你係咪食塞米?)

同義詞: 食濕米, 食塞米

參考: https://shyyp.net/hant/phrase/%E9%A3%9F%E5%A1%9E%E7%B1%B3

定義: A word used by Hong Kong people to express absolute affirmation, which is comparable to 'Bingo!'

用法: E.g. 係喇，係喇。Exactly! E.g. 岩喇！呢個就係我exactly想講既野。 E.g. 我唔係太get你exactly想講咩。

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to being able to gain experience of something by being in a particular environment rather than having physical contact with something. However, it is not to be confused with public exposure.

用法: E.g. 學習語言要夠exposure。(Learning a language needs enough exposure.) E.g. 做開大行去細行一定唔慣，exposure 又細啲，資源又小啲。(It must be hard getting used to working in a small company if you came from a large company. There is less exposure and resources are also less.)

同義詞: 接觸

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2363704/page/1

定義: Similar to the famous quote 'fake it till you make it', this is a code-mixing phrase used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to acting as if you are confident and capable until you achieve the results, except that it is full of bragging and shouting nonsense at a very high volume.

用法: E.g. 無research就無insights，成班人喺度鳩嗌，彷彿嗌大聲啲就會突然make business sense。口號型經濟，大家一齊fake it till you fail it (Without research, there can be no insights. The whole group is shouting nonsense, as if shouting louder will suddenly make business sense. Slogan type economics, let's fake it till you fail it together.)

同義詞: 扮到失敗為止; 弄假成敗

參考: https://www.threads.com/share/BAOhMEibQy/

定義: A code-mixing phrase used by upper class Hong Kongers to refer to the all sorts of time spent with one's family, which aren't necessarily quality time but rather for the purposes of occasion.

用法: E.g. 節日就黎到，記住唔好去旅行，留返啲時間一齊食飯同family time。(Holiday is coming. Remember not to go travelling but spare some time eating a meal together and having family time.)

同義詞: 家庭時間

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3704109/page/10

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone who does not show gratitude to those who helped him/her after a goal is reached.

用法: E.g. I have helped you reach your goal and you complete forget about me? So does that mean you finished the ritual and ditch the monk?

同義詞: 打完齋唔要和尚

參考: https://shyyp.net/hant/phrase/打完齋唔要和尚

定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to a relatively small number of people or things being put together but probably not big enough to be an organisation or entity.

用法: E.g. 我地間公司係一個group，不如加入我地既whatsapp group再傾吓我地可以點合作？(Our company is a group. What about joining our Whatsapp group so we can talk about how we can work together?)

同義詞: 組, 組織, 集團

參考: https://resources.ctgoodjobs.hk/article/23487/職場熱話-被迫加入廿個公司group-員工-不停彈訊息-連apple-watch都壞埋

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to exercise done in the gym. Even though it is often used as '做gym' (do gym), it is not to be confused with 'doing the gym' because the gym is actually the place where people do exercise in native English.

用法: E.g. 想唔想一齊做gym? (Want to work out / do exercise in the gym together?)

同義詞: 健身; 健身室; 健身室運動

參考: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/做gym

定義: 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.

用法: 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.)

同義詞: 邀請

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2051830/page/2

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use to get someone to hurry up, which is similar to the phrase 'chop chop' in English. (Also see 'ja ja lum'.)

用法: E.g. La la lum get your homework done! E.g. Leave now or you'll miss the train! La la lum la!

同義詞: 嗱嗱臨