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"Add oil" is a Hong Kong English expression used as an encouragement and support to a person.[1] Derived from the Chinese phrase Gayau (or Jiayou; Chinese: 加油), the expression is literally translated from the Cantonese phrase. It is originated in Hong Kong and is commonly used by bilingual Hong Kong speakers.[2] "Add oil" can be roughly translated as "Go for it".[1] Though it is often described as "the hardest to translate well",[3] the literal translation is the result of Chinglish and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018.[4] In Cantonese, gā (加) means "add", and yáu (油) means "oil" or "fuel". It is cited that the Cantonese term originated as a cheer at the Macau Grand Prix during the 1960s. It was used to imply stepping harder on the gas pedal, giving the car more speed and power to accelerate. It is also a metaphor of injecting fuel into a tank.[5] It was then used as an "all purpose cheer", and used exclusively in both Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese.[6] The ro

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