Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「吮疽舐痔」 and how it’s used.
Introducing the idiom 「吮疽舐痔」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
See “sucking carbuncle and licking hemorrhoids”. It means to suck out carbuncles with the mouth and lick hemorrhoids with the tongue to remove the poison. Later it was used to describe the dirty behavior of being servile and fawning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔn jū shì zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syun5 jeui1 laai2/lem2 ji6
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