Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「東閃西挪」 and its explanation.
We’re presenting the idiom 「東閃西挪」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Describes being afraid and evasive.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng shǎn xī nuó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 sim2 sai1 no4
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