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Examples:ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue—Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)—Year of the Ox or Bull (e.g. 2009)—see the ox already cut up into joints (idiom); extremely skilled—ox yoke placed on the horns—work like a horse and toil like an ox—birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc)—lit. work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard—lit. enough books make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books—ox-head shaped wine vessel—lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. disappear with no hope of returning—2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January 3rd February), year of the Ox—clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance—Ox-Head, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology—as many as the hair of the ox [idiom.]—lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart [idiom.]— |