Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「說三道四」 and its explanation.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「說三道四」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Describes making random comments that are not in line with one’s current position.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuō sān dào sì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syut3 saam1 dou6 sei3
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