甘蔗地里长草，荒糖甘蔗地里長草，荒糖甘蔗地里長草，荒糖

weeds grow in the sugarcane field: wasted sugar

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Says something is so absurd or wrong it is startling.
Wordplay: 糖 (táng, sugar) puns on 唐 (táng), as in 荒唐 (huāngtáng, absurd): a field gone to waste (荒) of sugar.

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Simplified: 甘蔗地里长草，荒糖
Traditional (Taiwan): 甘蔗地里長草，荒糖
Pinyin: gānzhe delǐ zhǎng cǎo, huāng táng
Bopomofo: ㄍㄢ ˙ㄓㄜ ˙ㄉㄜㄌㄧˇ ㄓㄤˇ ㄘㄠˇ，ㄏㄨㄤㄊㄤˊ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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