Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「顛倒衣裳」, explained here.
Here, we present the idiom 「顛倒衣裳」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Upside down: turning upside down; clothes: in ancient times, the upper part was clothes and the lower part was skirt. Describes something that is hasty and disorderly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
diān dǎo yī shang
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
din1 dou2 yi1 seung4
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