Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「爭貓丟牛」 today for free with this guide.
Here’s the idiom 「爭貓丟牛」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for losing the big by greed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhēng māo diū niú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jaang1 maau1 diu6 ngau4
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