- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- unceasing torrent (idiom); talking non-stop; gabbling forty to the dozen
- shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows; for better or for worse
- to seize every opportunity; to be full of tricks
- to work to no avail (idiom)
- lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom); to be far inferior
- to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend; to kick a benefactor in the teeth
- to break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor; evil-doer; to perpetrate outrages
- to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects); to recall the past to understand the future
