Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「割肉飼虎」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「割肉飼虎」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Feed: to feed. Cut off the flesh from your body and feed it to the tiger. It is a metaphor that even if you give up your own life, you cannot satisfy the other person’s greed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gē ròu sì hǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
got3 yuk6 ji6 fu2
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