Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「以水投石」, as shown below.
Here’s the idiom 「以水投石」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It is a metaphor for different opinions that are unacceptable to the other party.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ shuǐ tóu shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 seui2 tau4 sek6
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