Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「緊鑼密鼓」 and how it’s used.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「緊鑼密鼓」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
The gongs sound loud and the drums beat frequently. A burst of rapid gongs and drums before the opera begins. A metaphor for the atmosphere and momentum created to support someone’s coming to power or the promotion of something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǐn luó mì gǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gan2 lo4 mat6 gu2
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