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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「止渴望梅」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It’s like looking at plums to quench thirst. A metaphor for comforting oneself with fantasies. Same as “To quench thirst, think of plums”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ kě wàng méi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 hot3 mong6 mui4
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