1.lit. when someone tells you you're fat, you pant (as if you were actually fat) (idiom)2.fig. Hey! I pay you a compliment, and you start bragging! (typically jocular and teasing)3.flattery, like perfume, should be smelled, not swallowed
1.lit. don't worry about not knowing goods, but about comparing them (proverb)2.fig. goods' (or person's) true value can only be determined through comparison
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平[dèng xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)