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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「食魚遇鯖」.

Learn about the idiom 「食魚遇鯖」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for changing the taste to make something less monotonous. Mackerel and fish are delicious.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí yú yù qīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik6 yu2 yu6 ching1

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