Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「投鼠之忌」 here, with meaning and examples.
Introducing the idiom 「投鼠之忌」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It is a metaphor for being cautious and not daring to do something. Same as “be careful when using the tool to kill a rat”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tóu shǔ zhī jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tau4 syu2 ji1 gei6
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