Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「與虎謀皮」 below.
Learn about the idiom 「與虎謀皮」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Negotiate with the tiger for its skin. It is a metaphor that it is absolutely impossible to ask a wicked person to give up his own interests.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǔ hǔ móu pí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu5 fu2 mau4 pei4
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