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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「顧此失彼」 explained, free of charge.

The idiom being introduced now is 「顧此失彼」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Take care of this and lose that. Describes a busy or hurried situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gù cǐ shī bǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gu3 chi2 sat1 bei2

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