Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「汗流洽背」, with details below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「汗流洽背」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Sweat was all over my back. Describes being very frightened or extremely scared. It is now also used to describe sweating a lot, with the clothes on the back being soaked. Same as “sweating profusely”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hàn liú qià bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon6 lau4 hap1 bui3
Chinese idioms are vast in number, each carrying unique meanings and usages. With such variety, there’s a lot to learn and appreciate. Hopefully, these resources will aid you on your journey to mastering Chinese.
