Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「涕淚交流」, with more below.
Here’s the idiom 「涕淚交流」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Snot and tears flow at the same time, expressing extreme sorrow. Same as “tears and snot streaming down one’s face”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tì lèi jiāo liú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tai3 leui6 gaau1 lau4
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