Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「措手不及」 here, with meaning and examples.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「措手不及」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
To deal with something. There was no time to deal with it. It means that something unexpected happens and cannot be dealt with at the moment.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cuò shǒu bù jí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chou3 sau2 bat1 kap6
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