 | [bÃ] |
| |  | pumpkin; squash |
| |  | close; stuffy |
| |  | Vải nà y bà |
| | This cloth is too closely woven |
| |  | in a fix; in a stalemate/checkmate; hard-pressed |
| |  | Là m thơ đang bà vần |
| | To be hard-pressed for rhymes while writing verses |
| |  | Nước cỠbà rì |
| | To be in an awful stalemate |
| |  | Gỡ thế bà |
| | To extricate oneself from a fix |
| |  | Bà quá hoá liá»u |
| | Necessity knows no law; needs must when the devil drives |
| |  | to be at a loss; to be at one's wits' end |
| |  | Bị há»i dồn đâm bà |
| | To be at a loss because of a barrage of questions |