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成语
细皮嫩肉 smooth-skinned, soft-fleshed
精挑细选 to select very carefully
芝麻绿豆 trivial, minuscule
青面獠牙 fierce-looking (lit. pale face, bared teeth)
面面俱到 take care of everything (lit. prepared in every aspect)
人面兽心 a wolf in sheep's clothing, a malicious liar (lit. human face, beast's heart)
缩头乌龟 a coward, a (metaphorical) ostrich (lit. a turtle pulling its head in)
藏头露尾 telling only part of the truth (lit. hiding the head and showing the tail)
苦海无涯,回头是岸 there's still time to repent (lit. the bitter sea is boundless, turn your head to find the shore)
pinyin )

语法
Direction words: 朝 vs 向 vs 往
https://mandarinbean.com/chao-vs-xiang-vs-wang/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22chao%22_%22xiang%22_and_%22wang%22
Words for "all": 全 vs 都
https://mandarinbean.com/quan-vs-dou/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/The_%22all%22_adverb_%22dou%22
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Indicating_the_whole_with_%22quan%22
Words for "just now," 刚, 刚刚, 刚才
https://mandarinbean.com/gang-cai/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22gang%22_and_%22gangcai%22

词汇
飞行 flight, flying
费, fee/cost; 费用, costs/expenses; 交费, pay; 浪费, waste; 收费, collect fees; 消费, consumption; 学费, tuition
分别, part; 分配, distribution; 分组, grouping; 得分, score
丰富, rich, plentiful
风险, risk
否定, negative; 否认, deny
pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-3-word-list/

玩玩
Some stuff from https://improvemandarin.com . While I can’t speak to their absolute reliability, they have a lot of interesting and/or useful things: large quantities of HSK practice tests as well as blog posts including things like cat-related Chinese vocabulary, Mandarin vs Cantonese and vs Shanghainese, most popular Chinese name trends (linked before, I think), three different ways to say “but”, and so on.

我服了,太热了吧。吃冰淇淋吃冻香蕉喝薄荷水。大家过得怎么样,8月还没问题呢?

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