Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「逍遙事外」. Explanation below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「逍遙事外」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
① Refers to the fact that the lawbreaker is not punished by law. It also refers to the fact that people who do bad things or are involved in bad things will not be investigated. ② Refers to staying out of something and not caring at all.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiāo yáo shì wài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu1 yiu4 si6 ngoi6
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