Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「加油添醋」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「加油添醋」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
To add content that was not originally there in the narration or speech for the purpose of exaggeration or rendering. Same as “add oil and vinegar”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiā yóu tiān cù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ga1 yau2 tim1/tim3 chou3
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