Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「弄斧班門」 for your learning.
Here’s the idiom 「弄斧班門」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Dancing with an axe in front of Lu Ban’s door. It is a metaphor for showing off one’s skills in front of experts and overestimating one’s abilities.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nòng fǔ bān mén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lung6 fu2 baan1 mun4
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