We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「鯨吞蠶食」.
Here’s the idiom 「鯨吞蠶食」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Like a whale swallowing it whole, like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves gradually. A metaphor for embezzlement by various means.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng tūn cán shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
king4 tan1 chaam4 sik6
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