Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「烈火烹油」—details below.
Discover the idiom 「烈火烹油」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
It is a metaphor for great momentum and arrogance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liè huǒ pēng yóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lit6 fo2 paang1 yau2/yau4
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