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Change log entry 73712
Processed by: richwarm (2021-11-04 04:02:26 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 68981 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
1. It often includes 互, but not necessarily.

TP
各有支持者,誰要不服氣就在網上廝殺別苗頭。
Each character has her own fans, who engage the others' in passionate debate.

打造新世代的政治菁英 ──政黨領袖營別苗頭
Party Camps for Young Leaders- Training the Future Political Elite

Wikt:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%88%A5%E8%8B%97%E9%A0%AD


2. Several sources say it's Shanghainese in origin.
(although it certainly is used commonly enough in Tw)
(and it's in Tw dicts but not mainland dicts)
(but it's not marked as "Tw" in LA)
Mainlanders seem to be unfamiliar with it:
“为了我哥别苗头”是什么意思?
- 我上网查了一下,是上海话。 ...
- 你在哪里看到的这句话?这句话没法理解。

Refs for its Shanghai origins:
a) “别苗头”是什么意思?
上海话
差不多意思就是,他在和我攀比,看谁有本事
大多指没有用语言而是用行动来做的竞争吧
https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/86404140.html

b) “别苗头”最初指农村庄稼汉比谁家的稻苗长得好。后来才渐渐变成了上海人”攀比”的代名词。
http://www.jiaodui.com/bbs/simple/?t12664.html
Diff:
- 互別苗頭 互别苗头 [hu4 bie2 miao2 tou5] /to compete with (idiom) (Tw)/to pit oneself against/
+ 別苗頭 别苗头 [bie2 miao2 tou5] /(dialect) to compete with/to pit oneself against/
By MDBG 2024
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