Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「養虎留患」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「養虎留患」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
A metaphor for indulging the enemy and leaving oneself with future troubles. Same as “raising a tiger brings trouble upon oneself”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǎng hǔ liú huàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeung5 fu2 lau4 waan6
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
