To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「狐狸尾巴」 explained, free of charge.
The featured idiom 「狐狸尾巴」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
According to ancient legends, foxes can transform into human form to deceive people, but their tails can never change, thus becoming a symbol of evil. A metaphor for the true face of a bad person or misleading evidence.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hú lí wěi bā
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wu4 lei2 mei5 ba1
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