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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「餓虎吞羊」. Explanation below.

Introducing the idiom 「餓虎吞羊」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

A hungry tiger devoured a lamb alive. A metaphor for swiftness and greed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

è hǔ tūn yáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngo6 fu2 tan1 yeung4

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