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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「狼吞虎噬」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「狼吞虎噬」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Swallow and chew like a wolf or a tiger. A metaphor for extreme greed and cruelty.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

láng tūn hǔ shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

long4 tan1 fu2 sai6

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