Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「大海撈針」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「大海撈針」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Fishing for a needle in the haystack. Metaphors are extremely hard to find.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà hǎi lāo zhēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 hoi2 lou1/laau4 jam1
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