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Chinese idioms like 「出雲入泥」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「出雲入泥」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means that once one becomes successful, he will not hesitate to trample his old friends into the mud. It is a metaphor for the coldness of human nature and the fickleness of the world.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chū yún rù ní

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheut1 wan4 yap6 nai4

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