Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「顧犬補牢」 and its explanation.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「顧犬補牢」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
It is a metaphor that when something goes wrong, it is advisable to try to remedy it in a timely manner.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gù quǎn bǔ láo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gu3 hyun2 bou2 lou4
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