We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「望風而逃」, with its usage explained below.
Here, we present the idiom 「望風而逃」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Seeing the opponent’s strong momentum from afar, he was scared and ran away. Describes being extremely cowardly of the enemy.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàng fēng ér táo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong6 fung1 yi4 tou4
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