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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「騎者善墮」.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「騎者善墮」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

People who are used to riding horses often fall off their horses. It is a metaphor that people who are good at a certain skill often fail due to carelessness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qí zhě shàn duò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ke4 je2 sin6 do6

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