From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「望塵奔潰」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「望塵奔潰」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It means to flee and scatter as soon as you see the dust raised by the enemy’s horses. Describes the army’s lack of fighting spirit. Also written as “Looking at the dust and running north”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàng chén bēn kuì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong6 chan4 ban1 kui2
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