Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「補苴罅漏」, with details below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「補苴罅漏」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
苴: the straw mat on the sole of a shoe; 罅: the gap. Repair the cracks and plug the leaks. A metaphor for making up for the shortcomings of something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bǔ jū xià lòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bou2 jeui1 la3 lau6
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