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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「冒大不韙」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「冒大不韙」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It refers to doing bad things regardless of public condemnation. Same as “risking the whole world’s disapproval”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mào dà bù wěi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou6 daai6 bat1 wai5

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.