We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「朝令暮改」.
Here’s the idiom 「朝令暮改」, with its definition and practical application described below.
The order issued in the morning was changed in the evening. A metaphor for frequently changing one’s ideas and methods.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cháo lìng mù gǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jiu1 ling6 mou6 goi2
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