Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「明槍暗箭」 and how it’s used.
We’re presenting the idiom 「明槍暗箭」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
metaphor for all kinds of open and covert attacks.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng qiāng àn jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4 cheung1 am3 jin3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
