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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「千推萬阻」 and how it’s used.

The featured idiom 「千推萬阻」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Push: push and drag. Block: to stop. Pushed and blocked many times. Describes making all kinds of excuses and refusing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān tuī wàn zǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 teui1 maan6 jo2

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