Fri Mar 1, 2002 7:00 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: > I've been trying to remember the phrase Singaporeans use regarding > "being first," as a community value. Do you know that one?
I'm not sure I know a phrase that has that meaning (unless it's something recent, like in the past 5 years or so). The closest slang term I can think of is "kiasu", which literally means "afraid of losing". It's used as an adjective in a negative sense (eg "he's so kiasu that he paid $5000 to apply to 100 universities"). Eileen
