We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「以噎廢飡」.
Discover the idiom 「以噎廢飡」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Because I choked while eating, I didn’t dare to eat anymore. A metaphor for stopping what one should do because of an accidental setback.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ yē fèi cān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 yit3 fai3 syun1
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