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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「拒狼進虎」 and how it’s used.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「拒狼進虎」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It is a metaphor that just as one disaster is gone, another one comes. Same as “rejecting a tiger and inviting a wolf in”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jù láng jìn hǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

keui5 long4 jeun3 fu2

The world of Chinese idioms is immense, with countless meanings and applications to discover. We hope these resources help you unlock the beauty of learning Chinese.