Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「冠履倒置」, with its explanation below.
The featured idiom 「冠履倒置」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It is a metaphor for the reversal of positions and the lack of distinction between superiors and subordinates.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guàn lǚ dǎo zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gun3 lei5 dou2 ji3
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