Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「駑馬戀棧」 for your learning.
Here, we present the idiom 「駑馬戀棧」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
A poor horse is a horse that cannot run fast. A stable is a stable. The bad horse only cared about the feed in the stable. It is a metaphor for incompetent people who only seek comfort and have no lofty ambitions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nú mǎ liàn zhàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nou4 ma5 lyun2 jaan2
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