4 characters Idiom and proverb 18 438

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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「混水摸魚」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

A metaphor for taking advantage of chaos to gain benefits.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hún shuǐ mō yú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wan6 seui2 mo2 yu2

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