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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「以狸致鼠」 here, with meaning and examples.

This feature highlights the idiom 「以狸致鼠」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Raccoon: cat. Use cats as bait to catch mice. A metaphor for something not being able to succeed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ lí zhì shǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 lei4 ji3 syu2

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