Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「櫛垢爬癢」.
The idiom 「櫛垢爬癢」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
Remove dirt and scratch it. A metaphor for eliminating evil.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhì gòu pá yǎng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jit3 gau3 pa4 yeung5
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