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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「拿糖作醋」 and its explanation.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「拿糖作醋」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

To put on airs and act pretentiously.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ná táng zuò cù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

na2/na4 tong2/tong4 jok3 chou3

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