Apart from gamblers 'fears that eating a flour turtle will turn their luck sour, turtles have many other bad connotations in modern Chinese society. In fact, when people curse each other these days, the first thing to come out is often "turtle egg" or "grandson of a turtle," which serve as cuss words for all occasions.
除了賭徒怕吃麵龜會槓龜，今天人們開口罵人最常用的大概就是「王八蛋、龜孫」，拖泥帶水、不乾不脆的人在台語中則被形容為「龜毛」。