Rolling up cats

撸猫 – lū māo – rolling up cats

What do cats, politicians’ shirtsleeves, dumbbells and BBQ skewers have in common? You can “roll them up” in China. You heard right. Because all these things can be combined in Chinese with a trendy verb, for which a similarly flexible dictionary entry has yet to be found in the West.

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