Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「指雞罵狗」, as shown below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「指雞罵狗」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Pointing at the chicken and scolding the dog. A metaphor for scolding one person on the surface but actually scolding that person.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ jī mà gǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 gai1 ma6 gau2
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