Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「乞漿得酒」—details below.
Learn about the idiom 「乞漿得酒」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Asked for a drink of water, got wine instead. Metaphorically getting more than what was asked for.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǐ jiāng dé jiǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hat1 jeung1 dak1 jau2
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