Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「杜口裹足」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「杜口裹足」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Dukou: shut your mouth; Juzu: stop moving forward. I dare not speak with my mouth closed, and I dare not walk when I stop. It is a metaphor for being cautious and not daring to approach, and staying away from something.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dù kǒu guǒ zú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou6 hau2 gwo2 juk1
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