Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「避涼附炎」, with details below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「避涼附炎」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
It means to distance oneself from the powerless and to cling to the powerful.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì liáng fù yán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bei6 leung4 fu6 yim4
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