Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「狼顧鴟跱」 and how it’s used.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「狼顧鴟跱」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Staring like a wolf and standing like an owl. A metaphor for a violent person waiting for an opportunity to strike.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
láng gù chī zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
long4 gu3 chi1 ji6
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