Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「投機倒把」.
Today, we explore the idiom 「投機倒把」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
They take advantage of opportunities to disrupt the market and make huge profits by means of hoarding, short selling, adulteration and falsification, and price manipulation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tóu jī dǎo bǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tau4 gei1 dou2 ba2
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