We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「婆婆媽媽」, with its usage explained below.
Here’s the idiom 「婆婆媽媽」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Used to describe a person’s actions as trivial and words as verbose. It also describes a person’s fragile emotions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pó pó mā mā
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
po4 po4 ma1 ma1
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
