Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「謝家活計」.
Here’s the idiom 「謝家活計」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for writing poetry.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiè jiā huó jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
je6 ga1 wut6 gai3/gai2
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