Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「謹毛失貌」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「謹毛失貌」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Originally it meant carefully painting the subtle and unimportant details while ignoring the overall appearance. Later it was used to illustrate paying attention to small things and ignoring the big things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǐn máo shī mào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gan2 mou1/mou4 sat1 maau6
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