Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「望塵而拜」 and how it’s used.
Introducing the idiom 「望塵而拜」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It refers to welcoming a powerful person and bowing down when seeing the dust raised by the chariot. Describes a servile and submissive attitude.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàng chén ér bài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong6 chan4 yi4 baai3
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