What does simmering stove cat mean in Shanghainese?

The simmering stove cat in Shanghai dialect describes a person who is depressed and unable to cheer up. Sometimes it can also refer to a person who is timid and dare not do anything.

Domestic cats are always lazy in the impression that they come to rub against you to give you face. Most of the time, they like to lie down, lie down, or eat slowly.

Stove cats generally refer to cats that are afraid of the cold. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, they like to sleep in hot places such as stoves or the sun. Used to describe people who are lazy, listless and listless.

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1. Danyanluoyan

Danyanluoyan means staring with wide eyes. Firstly, it refers to good-looking, Beautiful, no matter good or bad, is conspicuous in a crowd or in a pile of things. The meaning of "prominence" and "outstanding" is mostly a complimentary word; secondly, it refers to speaking and doing things that make people jaw-dropping and deafening; or it is used to express an angry look or a fierce look. look.

2. The forehead touches the ceiling

In Shanghainese, extremely lucky is described as "the forehead touches the ceiling." "frontal head" means forehead. Shanghainese people believe that luck means a person's "high forehead and head". If his forehead is so high that it "touches the ceiling", he is extremely lucky.

3. Yellow croaker brain

Generally, May is the flood season for yellow croaker. It is said that when fishing, fishermen will beat special drums on the boat, and the sound of the drum will guide the yellow croaker group to the sounding point. Being close together makes it easy for fishermen to catch fish, and the yellow croakers do not wake up when they are on the road to death, which shows that their minds are not very bright.

It is said that there are small white stones in the brain of yellow croaker. Shanghai dialect vividly uses "yellow croaker brain" to describe a person who does not use his brain and is not very enlightened, as if his head is not filled with wisdom, but with wisdom. It's a stone.