Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「怕痛怕癢」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「怕痛怕癢」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
A metaphor for being timid and full of worries.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pà tòng pà yǎng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pa3 tung3 pa3 yeung5
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