What kind of person does salted fish refer to?

Salted fish refers to people who have no dreams.

Salted fish meaning:

1, Cantonese metaphor for "the dead".

2. Cantonese is a metaphor for "people who don't want to move".

The metaphor on the Internet is "people without dreams".

4. In online games, the metaphor is "Don't or seldom spend energy and time to participate in activities to improve your players".

5. A self-deprecating phrase "I am a salted fish" on the Internet.

Salted fish means "dead body" in Cantonese, and there is a saying in Cantonese that "salted fish is reborn" to describe the resurrection of the dead. Later, it is a metaphor for the great reversal of things that are dying.

The line in the movie shaolin soccer: "If you don't have a dream, what's the difference with salted fish?" (The original Cantonese text is: "If you have a dream, what is the difference between being a man and a salted fish?" If a person has no dreams, he is no different from a dead person.

Derived from online games, "salty fish spikes" is a metaphor for playing games with simple and low-level weapons.

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Salted fish turns over. When a person is depressed, he suddenly encounters some unexpected opportunities and turns over or gets better. It is a metaphor for salted fish turning over. When salted fish is generally used to describe people, it is derogatory and ironic. Salted fish can't "turn over" originally, but to say that salted fish turns over is to come back to life, which means that the situation has changed from bad to good in a short time.

Generally speaking, what we want to express with this idiom is that something that has given up hope suddenly takes a major turn and develops in the expected direction.

Literally interpreting "salted fish turning over" is somewhat puzzling. It is neither difficult nor unexpected for salted fish to turn over, which has nothing to do with the usual meaning.

If we regard "salted fish turning over" as a typo of "salted fish coming back to life", it makes sense literally. It is both a surprise and a good thing that a dead fish can survive after being salted.