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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「一口兩匙」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「一口兩匙」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A metaphor for greed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī kǒu liǎng shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 hau2 leung5 chi4/si4

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.