Language Log » The stock market warrior-desperado's last-ditch fight

« previous post | next post »Chǎogǔ 炒股 (lit., “stir-fry stock”) means playing with stocks and bonds (stock market speculation). This is probably THE hottest term in the PRC vocabulary today. The term itself is not in the following widely circulating cartoon, but the spirit of the term is very much present:Complete translation:rén zài zhèndì zài 人在阵地在 (lit., “people [rén […]