From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「賣身投靠」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「賣身投靠」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Sell out yourself and join the powerful. It is a metaphor for losing one’s personality and willingly becoming a tool of evil forces.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
mài shēn tóu kào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
maai6 san1 tau4 kaau3
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