4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 929

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

This introduction highlights the idiom 「毛舉細務」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

To enumerate small things in a tedious manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

máo jǔ xì wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou1/mou4 geui2 sai3 mou6

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