Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「狼前虎後」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「狼前虎後」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Drive away the wolf from the front door, and a tiger will come in from the back door. A metaphor for bad guys coming one after another.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
láng qián hǔ hòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
long4 chin4 fu2 hau6
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