Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「留有餘地」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「留有餘地」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A metaphor for leaving room for maneuver when speaking or doing things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liú yǒu yú dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lau4 yau5 yu4 dei6
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