开房间 (kāi fáng jiān) — (v.o.) to book/rent a hotel room; (v.o., colloquial euphemism) to get a hotel room for a sexual encounter; to 'get a room'
Definition
A verb-object phrase: literally 'open a room'. Literally means to book/rent a hotel room, but is also widely used as a euphemism for checking into a room for a sexual encounter. Context makes which sense is meant clear.
verb
(v.o.) to book/rent a hotel room(v.o., colloquial euphemism) to get a hotel room for a sexual encounterto 'get a room'
Examples
- ，开房间。Wǒ míng tiān yào qù běi jīng chū chāi, xiān zài wǎng shàng kāi fáng jiān.I need to go to Beijing on a business trip tomorrow, so I'll book a hotel room online first.
- ，。Wǒ men zài zhè jiā jiǔ diàn kāi le yí gè fáng jiān, hěn gān jìng.We booked a room at this hotel, and it's very clean.
- 开房间。Tā men liǎng gè rén tōu tōu qù kāi fáng jiān le.The two of them secretly went to get a room.
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