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1 to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)

1 every potter praises his own pot (idiom)

2 all one's geese are swans

1 every potter praises his own pot (idiom)

2 all one's geese are swans

1 to make a hard living as unskilled laborer

1 to be sold out

2 to be out of stock

1 The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bái Jū yì]

1 to keep listeners in suspense (in storytelling)

2 to keep people on tenterhooks

1 to sell at a big discount

1 promotional event

2 sale

1 to flaunt a skill

2 to give display to one's ability

3 to show off a feat

4 to vaunt one's tricks

1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)

1 butcher

1 kiosk

2 snack counter

3 retail department or section inside a larger business

1 treason

1 (vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄[mā mài bī])

1 trafficking in human beings

1 to speculate

2 to play the market

3 (fig.) to sell hot air

4 to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator

1 Chinese people press-ganged and sold into slavery during Western colonialism

1 buying and selling at fair prices