Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「唱對台戲」 and how it’s used.
We’re presenting the idiom 「唱對台戲」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
In the past, in order to compete for business, two opera troupes would sometimes perform the same play at the same time, which was called competing performances. A metaphor for taking actions opposite to the other party in order to oppose or bring down the other party.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chàng duì tái xì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheung3 deui3 toi2/toi4 hei3
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
