Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「臨渴穿井」 and how it’s used.
The Chinese idiom 「臨渴穿井」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
Wear: hit. Only when you are thirsty do you think of digging a well. It is a metaphor to think of solutions only when the situation arises.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lín kě chuān jǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lam4 hot3 chyun1 jeng2
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