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Idioms linked to “더위” · Linked dictionary word

더위 (를) The part “를” may be omitted. 사다

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English rendering buy someone’s summer heat Literal translation: “buy the heat”

Meaning 1

정월 보름날에 행해지는 더위팔기 풍습에서 나온 말로, 남이 자기의 이름을 불렀을 때 대답을 하면 그 사람의 더위까지 가지게 되어 한여름에 더위를 먹게 됨을 이르는 말.

An expression from the heat-selling custom on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month: answering when someone calls one’s name means taking on that person’s heat too and suffering from the summer heat.

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These idioms are linked to the same word, “더위”, in the Standard Korean Language Dictionary.

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“더위를 사다” — buy someone’s summer heat: An expression from the heat-selling custom on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month: answering when someone calls one’s name means taking on that person’s heat too and suffering from the summer heat.
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