OMG! Chinese Buzzwords! (14)

总队长(zǒng duì zhāng)
captain pioneer
A photo of 13-year-old schoolboy Huang Yibo, better-known as the deputy director of the all-Wuhan city’s Young Pioneers, a mass youth organization for children in China, posing with his badge of five red bars has been hot online. Netizens say he sets a “standard” for a future government official and could even be a comic superhero, Captain Pioneer.

番茄工作法(fān qié gōng zuò fǎ)
pomodoro technique
A time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo. The technique uses a real timer or a software timer to create 25-minute work segments called “pomodori” (the Italian word for tomato), separated by five-minute breaks.

冷指(lěng zhǐ)
cold finger
Similar to turning a cold shoulder, giving a cold finger is to ignore someone’s text or microblog message — usually when that comment is pointless or uncalled-for.

拆家(chāi jiā)
middleman
The Cantonese word, literally meaning “brokers” in Chinese, refers to distributors between manufacturers and retailers, especially drug dealers. The recent drug scandal involving Taiwan actor Sun Xing revealed that there might be several starlet drug dealers in domestic showbiz.

财金智能(cǎi  jīn zhì néng)
finlit
This is a new abbreviation of the expression “financial literacy,” which means the knowledge and understanding of financial language and concepts, especially when this helps one make important decisions about their financial situation.